If your boss or your supervisor is a total jerk and sets you up to be fired or to fail, do you have any legal action against that supervisor? The answer in Florida was always “maybe,” but thanks to a landmark appeal handled by Sarelson Law Firm, we now know that the answer is yes.
I represent the plaintiff in an employment discrimination lawsuit against Arbor E&T and its parent company, Res-Care. On behalf of my client, a black Haitian American, we also sued her immediate supervisor because the immediate supervisor fired my client out of racial animus. The trial court dismissed the count of tortious interference against the supervisor. We appealed, and we prevailed on appeal.
The Third District Court of Appeal correctly held that an employee can sue a co-worker at the same company for tortious interference when the co-worker acts with ulterior motives not in the best interest of the company.
The decision is here:
Alexis v. Ventura – Tortious Interference By Co-worker
We look forward to prevailing against Res-Care and the co-worker in the upcoming October trial.
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