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Discharge as an at will employee. What is a wrongful termination? Debunking myths about your employment rights -- Strategies to survive a disciplinary action. Are you really on a termination track? How employee discipline works. How to survive employee discipline -- How to diffuse potentially volatile situations. Strategies for executives. Strategies for mid-level managers. Strategies for first line non-union supervisors. Strategies for non-management employees -- How to use human resources to survive an abusive work environment. Your need to report. Using judgment in reporting harassment. Your objective : to change the subject -- Strategies to preempt or prevent an anticipated termination. Preempt it by proposing that you resign. Demonstrate submission to authority. Enlist third party assistance. Assume a legal posture. Engage in a political war -- Managing an imminent termination. Ten things to do. Ten things to avoid doing -- Handling the termination itself. The termination meeting. Post-termination winding up. The exit interview. Your "final check" and benefits. Post-termination filings to protect your rights. The effect of termination on your receipt of benefits -- Ten more "do's" and "don'ts" if you have been terminated. Ten "do's" if you have been terminated. Ten "don'ts" if you have been terminated -- Negotiating a severance agreement. How to get more severance. What should your severance agreement contain? -- All about lawyers. How to find a lawyer. Engaging your lawyer -- What makes a termination unlawful? How our legal system works. Public policy "wrongful discharge." Statutory "wrongful discharge." Employment contracts -- Other legal claims available to terminated workers. Intentional infliction of severe emotional distress. intentional interference with economic relations. Invasion of privacy. Defamation. Misrepresentation -- Termination of special group members. Termination of union workers. Termination of government employees -- Evaluating your termination case. How can I tell if I have a case?