Employment litigation is one of the most common areas of litigation. In addition, in general it is an extremely emotionally difficult area to litigate because of the significant emotions on both sides. For that reason, it’s an area of law that’s well suited for negotiation or mediation, given the time, expense and emotional cost a trial can inflict. It is important to understand that when employees lose their job, they suffer grief over the loss. That grief can create major emotional barriers to negotiations.
Help Cope With Losing A Job
Although everyone faces stress and grief differently, Lifehacker has addressed Elizabeth Kubler Ross’ stages of grief and applied it to employment. In essence, most people who’ve lost their jobs go through five stages of grief afterward, not necessarily in this order.
