How to Sue Your Boss

Most people who have a claim never learn they had one, and most of the leverage is spent long before anybody files anything. The severance agreement with a deadline on it, the performance review that appears a week after you asked for somewhere to pray, the clause in the offer letter nobody reads until they are leaving: this workshop is about what to do in the hour each of those lands. Samy Harmoush worked at a defence firm and then a plaintiff firm before founding one that acts only for employees, and is licensed in New York, California and Washington DC.

Who this is for

Anyone with an employer. People who have just been handed a severance agreement, anyone who has wondered whether what happened at work last month was illegal or merely bad, and the managers who would rather not be on the other side of this.

On the table

• What actually makes a claim, and why retaliation for raising something is often the stronger case than the thing raised
• Severance: what a first offer usually leaves on the table, and what the deadline on it is for
• Prayer, Jumuah, hijab and Ramadan at work: what an employer has to accommodate and what it does not

You'll leave with

• What to write down, when, and where to keep it, starting the day something happens
• How to read the agreement in front of you before you sign it
• The questions to ask a lawyer, and the point at which it is worth calling one