Can I sue my former employer for slander? I was under investigation for taking money with out authorization. I was on administration leave for 10 days. The second of my leave a trainer for the company was telling the people in the training that I stole money from the company. I was told by 8 people that she made this statement in her class. Do I have a case?

I am taking the medication Requip.. which has bad side effects. I have been on this medication for the past 2 years. Suddenly I began to gamble and lost all of my yearly salary. My home is in foreclosure status and I lost my job due to taking money to feed my addiction. Can I sue the company for pain and suffering and lost wages?

I've merged these as they are related.
You can sue anyone for anything, the difficult part is proving it.
Going from what you have said here, you don't appear to have a particularly strong cause of action at all, in fact I find it difficult to work out exactly what your case would be..

Why do you think you could sue for slander? Slander is telling something that is untrue. You stole from you job to feed you gambling addiction. That person didn't slander you.

Actually, the company could sue you to return the funds you stole.

What was the outcome of the investigation?

In one post you talk asbout an investigation, in another you admit stealing. So where is the slander?

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Originally Posted by PennyWaters

I am taking the medication Requip..which has bad side effects. I have been on this medication for the past 2 years. Suddenly I began to gamble and lost all of my yearly salary. My home is in foreclosure status and I lost my job due to taking money to feed my addiction. Can I sue the company for pain and suffering and lost wages?

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You can only sue for pain and suffering when it's a personal injury matter. You don't have a personal injury (accident or incident with injury) case.

You can sue for lost wages if what is said about you is not true, the person saying it realizes it is not true, you can PROVE you were harmed financially by the untrue statement.

What that was said was untrue and how were you financially harmed - you weren't hired for a job based on this statement alone, something along those lines?

The standard of proof is difficult and it appears to me that you were guilty of misappropriating funds.

- Or am I misreading this?

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Originally Posted by J_9

Why do you think you could sue for slander? Slander is telling something that is untrue. You stole from you job to feed you gambling addiction. That person didn't slander you.


Actually, the company could sue you to return the funds you stole.

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I don't read post #2 as saying OP took money from her employer. She says "... I lost my job due to taking money to feed my addiction." Could be she took it from her employer, but I am understanding her to say that she took it from her own pocket.

"I lost my job due to taking money " don't know for sure but it sounds like that to me. She lost her job because she took money. Ops do not always write in the clearest fashion so maybe she can come back and clear this up. For the past 11 hours we are the only ones here.