I was employed for a very large company. I had been their for 19 months and had an excellent employment record, very dependable, always volunteered to work over time and performed above and beyond what was expected. I had a coworker who had FMLA due to rheumatoid Arthritis. She is a slacker and always called in and only did enough to get by on. Handling maybe 5 patients to my 20 in an hour and a half. My coworkers and I registered complaints about her job performance over a nine month period. She complained to my supervisor that she was getting harassing phone calls, she blamed me. (I was at work with her when these calls came in. The company investigated and her claims were unfounded. However they still terminated me based on my demeanor during the investigation. They did not fight unemployments findings and I am collecting. Since I was fired she is now telling people that I was caught defacing her car and that she has a PFA against me both of which are not true. Is there a slander case here since I have witnesses to cooberate and since I have loss of income. This is a very small town an the other than this company their aren't many places to go for my type of work to get another job.:mad:

Here is the info on slander (which I wrote):

"Briefly - Generally in law libel refers to permanent/written statements and slander refers to non-permanent/spoken statements. Defamation (of character) covers both categories.

You must be damaged - and prove damages - in order to recover. The statements (either written or spoken) must be false but presented as though they were true and be beyond offensive, derogatory or insulting. Such statement must rise to a level which actually harms a person's reputation. In general the person making the statement must either know it isn't true or make the statement without attempting to verify if it is true.

The defense to defamation is that the information was not presented as the truth (which covers gossip), that the information was never secret (privileged) and was always public."

You would sue for monetary damages - what are your damages to date?

I'm curious why you were fired but your employer didn't fight your Unemployment? Sounds like the employer isn't really sure what's going on here.