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6ftsoccermom
Perhaps I am not clear. I live in Illinois. I work at a big firm. A partner got fired. He now says that he was wrongfully terminated. He filed a case with Illinois Human Rights Division. The investigator for the Human Rights division asked him if he had any witnesses to support his wrongful termination case that would be willing to give a statement. The partner put down everybody in the office on our floor as witnesses. The Human Rights Division sent letters to every witness he listed. The Human Rights Division called over and over asking for all of these law firm staff people. I am not a partner. I am low on the pole, if you know what I mean. I am pissed because having all those letters delivered to the front office looks really bad. People started talking and speculating about the terminated partner. My question if I was not clear is why in the hell would anybody do this knowing that all of these people hated his guts? Is that clear enough? I would not testify for this bastard if he was the last person on earth. He made us suffer greatly under his thumb and I will fight to the last breath not to have to assist this bastard with his case so he can get millions while the rest of us continue to work hard.
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I am wondering what the HR department will do with all these letters from the Human Rights Division in Illinois. Exactly what can we expect them to assist us with once they get copies of these letters from all of our staff? The letters as you say are not subpoena's or are they discovery request(whatever that means) but they are simply telling all of our staff that you were listed by the complainant as witnesses to his wrongful termingation(whatever that means) and that they would be very interested in knowing what we have to say even if we have nothing at all to say. They said they will take e-mails, phone calls and face to face meetings. They said they will keep calling(which I will find a way to put a stop to) and they said they will keep requesting until we officially say we will not do anything. I did ask the guy to stop calling, but legally we are all still wondering. The letter is not official and starts with "I have been advised by the complainant"...this partner is a real bastard.