Collaborative Research on Layoffs and Wrongful Termination Litigation

无论是对个人还是对公司来说， 裁员 这个项目探讨了工人如何看待 他们的失业以及他们如何决定他们是否遭受了 错误的或歧视性的待遇。 该项目扩大了 通过查看索赔决定来研究有关起诉的决定 对于过去的雇主。 这项研究将测试一些 诉讼行为理论，特别关注如何 受到前雇主公平或不公平对待的感觉影响 提出不当解雇索赔的决定 通过帮助我们 去理解参与到 这项研究将有助于我们理解 公平对待的日常观念如何影响 将案件提交给法律的系统。 这项合作研究将包括1075最近的采访 在州失业办公室招聘的被解雇或下岗的工人。 访谈将探讨各种因素， 有助于决定起诉，包括提前终止 待遇、失业的经济负担、索赔意识 选择和歧视的感觉。 后续访谈 一些工人将被用来确定谁实际上是 提出了不当解雇索赔

Few events are as traumatic, in both personal and corporate terms, as layoffs. This project explores how workers view the causes of their job loss and how they decide whether they have suffered wrongful or discriminatory treatment. The project expands the study of decisions about suing by looking at claiming decisions with respect to past employers. The study will test a number of theories of litigation behavior, focusing particularly on how feelings of fair or unfair treatment by the former employer affects the decision to make a wrongful termination claim. By helping us to understand the psychological and social processes involved in claiming decisions, the study will contribute to our understanding of how everyday notions of fair treatment affect the movement of cases into the legal system. This collaborative study will include interviews of 1075 recently fired or laid-off workers recruited at state unemployment offices. The interviews will explore a variety of factors thought to contribute to the decision to sue, including pre-termination treatment, financial burdens of unemployment, awareness of claiming options, and feelings of discrimination. Follow-up interviews with some of the workers will be used to determine who actually initiated wrongful termination claims.