Re: any recourse for real estate agent wrongfully terminated

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Hi Miss nice,

**After you get in contact with your local anti-discrimination
or "fair employment" or "equal opportunity" agency (or the
federal EEOC), to file an official complaint of harassment,
discrimination, and retaliation.**

You may also want to contact THE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT, THE
LABOR DEPARTMENT and if you can afford a RE Lawyer the better
for you, I have seen this unfairness with Brokers in many RE
0ffices and they make you feel helpless because you are just
a : 'Private Contractor', which only means you pay your own
taxes and that you are on your own, but you still belong in
the work force and in that particular office, and have
generated lots money for the Broker

For them to let go of one agent means nothing the Brokers eyes
are full of greed and all they care about is green $$$ and
that's all they care for, while we hold open houses and sell
for them, and generate tremendous ammount of money for the
little commission they pay us, not to mention when you hold
open house for one of the Broker's listing, they will never
even offer to pay or bring you lunch after all of your effort
of putting up signs, making flyers and one of the open house
families will end up buying straight from the listing agent
which is the greedy BROKER, did they ever even thanks us? the
answer is NO.

I say go for the kill !

Best of Luck

Lindsey :)

>> I was suddenly terminated because I filed a complaint on
>> my sales manager for discrimination and hostile work
>> environment....
>
> 1. you've been a victim of "retaliation" (i.e., being
> terminated for making a discrimination complaint). most anti-
> discrimination laws also forbid retaliation, so if you were
> fired for making a complaint, you've probably got a clear
> case of retaliation regardless of the merits of your
> discrimination complaint (i.e., even if they didn't
> discriminate against you, they clearly retaliated).

> 2. don't jump to the conclusion you're an "independent
> contractor." a real estate agent is a "statutory non-
> employee" for tax purposes under IRS rules, but that doesn't
> make you a non-employee for the discrimination laws. in
other
> words, no matter what they told you (i.e., that you're an
> independent contractor and must pay your own taxes), you may
> still qualify as a "common law" employee under the workers'
> comp, anti-discrimination, unemployment, etc., laws
>
> plus, even if you are an independent contractor, some anti-
> discrimination laws protect employees and independent
> contractors from harassment (e.g., California's FEHA).
>
> so, you might want to contact your local anti-discrimination
> or "fair employment" or "equal opportunity" agency (or the
> federal EEOC), to file an official complaint of harassment,
> discrimination, and retaliation.
>
> good luck.