In Illinois a constructive discharge occurs when an employee is forced to resign because the employer is making working conditions intolerable and hostile.  Many times the hostile work environment will be the result of a complaint of discrimination that the employee files with the company.  Instead of taking the complaint on face value and investigating, the company will do things to make the employees life so miserable that the employee quits. 

It is very important for an employee to keep a journal or log of events that are taking place and try to document these events.  Companies will take many small negative steps toward an employee in the hopes the employee quits employment.   Another reason for an employee to become constructively discharged is if an employee reports sexual harassment or another form of discrimination and the employer fails to act on the report and continues to allow the employee to be subjected to the sexual harassment.

My two offices can handle constructive discharge cases in Illinois.  Call me at 312-505-5038 to discuss your case.  There is no charge unless you recover.

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