What is the name of your state? Texas, but the project is in California.
I was hired as an independent subcontractor to a systems integration company managing a project at a large pharma company in California. After 4 months of stellar performance, I was let go.
The reason given to me was that I was not meeting my deliverables. This was incorrect and can be proven otherwise. Truth is that the new team lead at the pharmaceutical client company did not care for me. She went to the steering committee and to the project management company (that I was subcontracting through) and gave false reasons for my termination. While I realize that this is not considered wrongful termination of the definition of the law, as an independent contractor my good name and reputation that I have built doing this type of work over the past 11 years has been tarnished. There are approximately 120 people on the project that this message was delivered to... the people that know me know the truth and would back me up in court, but there are many people that were not on my team and really do not know the real story. Is there any recourse for this slander that will very likely cost me future opportunities at other projects?
If I went on television and told the viewing public not to buy a Ford car because they are unsafe, gave specific reasons that could be proven otherwise, couldn't I be sued by Ford Motor Corp?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was hired as an independent subcontractor to a systems integration company managing a project at a large pharma company in California. After 4 months of stellar performance, I was let go.
The reason given to me was that I was not meeting my deliverables. This was incorrect and can be proven otherwise. Truth is that the new team lead at the pharmaceutical client company did not care for me. She went to the steering committee and to the project management company (that I was subcontracting through) and gave false reasons for my termination. While I realize that this is not considered wrongful termination of the definition of the law, as an independent contractor my good name and reputation that I have built doing this type of work over the past 11 years has been tarnished. There are approximately 120 people on the project that this message was delivered to... the people that know me know the truth and would back me up in court, but there are many people that were not on my team and really do not know the real story. Is there any recourse for this slander that will very likely cost me future opportunities at other projects?
If I went on television and told the viewing public not to buy a Ford car because they are unsafe, gave specific reasons that could be proven otherwise, couldn't I be sued by Ford Motor Corp?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.