My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: Michigan.
Please bear with me....this is rather involved. For background info I work as a Computer Support Specialist where I am supposed to support a customized package of software for student information, financial accounting, and human resources. I was denied training and I believe it was due to my race.
My two co-workers who are of a different race than myself were able to receive on-site, unscheduled training with our Payroll and Accounting persons. On three separate occasions myself, my boss, and a programmer approached these individuals and set up unscheduled training time for myself with the Payroll and Accounting persons. The week I was supposed to receive my training, the Payroll person came to get my co-worker instead. This continued off and on for a period of 2 months. After 5 months of not receiving training I worked with another programmer and scheduled off-site training with a customer. I felt that I needed to go through such unnecessary lengths to receive training and I felt it was because of my race. I ended up putting in my two week notice and I am claiming constructive discharge because not only did I not receive training, but I did not receive all the tools I needed to do my job. I also never had a 30, 60, or 90 day review and I believe my co-workers did. So, in essence I sat for 7 months and would tell callers that I couldn't help them because I did not know the system they were using because I hadn't been trained. If this wasn't humiliating enough, when I gave my boss my two week notice he made me announce the fact that I had resigned and he made jokes about me leaving and announced that a goal for 2009-2010 was to find my replacement. Do I have grounds for a lawsuit against my soon to be former employer?