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Can I sue my past employer for stalking & harassment?
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I asked & was given personal time for an appointment. I attended my appointment & it took shorter then expected so I proceeded to finish up some other unfinished personal business, where not even 5 minutes later the owner, my boss walked in harassing me telling me he is not paying me for this and other intimidating things. I went back to work after that since I was so confused what was actually going on. He came back to work about 15 minutes later & held a meeting in his office with my coworker. After he left for the day my coworker told me he had offered her my job & was going to fire me the next morning. I put in my resignation letter the next morning stating exactly what I felt he had done to me...stalked, harassed & intimidated me so I could no longer work there.
Pursuant to the Michigan Criminal Code:
“Harassment” means conduct directed toward a victim that includes, but is not limited to, repeated or continuing unconsented contact that would cause a reasonable individual to suffer emotional distress and that actually causes the victim to suffer emotional distress. Harassment does not include constitutionally protected activity or conduct that serves a legitimate purpose.
“Stalking” means a willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested.
“Course of conduct” means a pattern of conduct composed of a series of 2 or more separate noncontinuous acts evidencing a continuity of purpose.
“Emotional distress” means significant mental suffering or distress that may, but does not necessarily, require medical or other professional treatment or counseling.
Based on the limited facts you have described, it is unlikely that you have a claim against your boss. Saying that he is not going to pay you for running personal errands and threatening to fire you is not harassment or intimidation (even if he was rude or abrupt in the manner that he said it). Furthermore, assuming you are an at-will employee (which most non-union employees are) he can fire you for any reason (except discrimination) or for no reason at all.
I recommend that you consult with an attorney to discuss in more detail what "other intimidating things" he actually did or said.
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