Hacker News Reader

HR represents the company's interests, not the employees'.

I've heard it said that in the U.S., the only reliable way for a non-union worker to get real protection from abuse is to personally hire a labor attorney.

View on HN

Depends on the HR department. If you can communicate why "bad for employees" is bad for the company, then they'll help. Same with the legal department. And yeah, sometimes lawyering up is necessary to demonstrate that bad for employee is about to be bad for company.

Unless you have a case so egregious there is a high likelihood of punitive damages or a class action, no labor attorney is going to take a typical non union individual’s case. 30% of the actual damages alone aren’t even close to being enough to get an attorney to take a case that will take years to resolve and will cap out with a low 5 figures payout for the attorney.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com