Be cautious of an attorney who advises you that you signed something under duress. If an employer hands you a legal document and advises you to sign it and of the consequences (termination) if you don't sign it, you're under no duress when you sign it. You know what you're doing. Employers have a right to make employees acknowledge everything going on in the work place, i.e. change of policy, change of procedure, time clock issues, saftey issues (ad infinitum). THey can change these procedures anytime and make you sign documents daily or three times daily, put them in your file, and not give you time to make a copy. You can request to look at your personnel file, but you are not allowed to copy all information contained. And information contained in your personnel file is not the same information contained in your supervisor's employee file. My advice -- if these documents are tacking more duties onto you, sign them and do the best job you can. If you start requesting to make photocopies of documents that aren't related to any disciplinary action that's being taken against you specifically (and your employer has explained what these documents are), your employer is going to frown on your approach "I want copies". If you've already contacted an attorney about this and it gets back to your employer and they approach you about it, deny having contacted an attorney, and then start looking for another job. Honestly -- I'm not being sarcastic -- that's the best advice I can give.
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