How Do You File A Mental Health Discrimination Lawsuit?
You’re suffering from a mental health illness and you feel that you are being discriminated against at your job. Perhaps you’ve even been fired and you believe your mental illness was the cause. You want to file a lawsuit against your employer for your damages, but you don’t know how to go about it. Here are some steps you need to take to file a mental health discrimination lawsuit. Ask yourself if your boss ever inquired about your mental health before he/she offered you a job, if he/she could be using your disability as a means to keep you from earning a promotion or getting a pay raise, for example, or if any requests for accommodations that you may have made have been turned down. Write down everything that you remember and gather together all paperwork that may support any basis for your complaint for mental health discrimination. Consult with an experienced civil rights attorney to determine your rights. Most likely, if the company you work for has 15 or more employees, your comp