If Your Boss Kicks You, Should You Sue the Company?

bossesIt’s a bizarre headline, we know but go with us here…the reader mailbag on AOL Jobs includes a reader’s situation with a boss.

“Yesterday it went a little too far when he thought he was being funny and kicked me on my behind and told me to get back in my office.”

Donna Ballman, employee-side employment lawyer and author, asks the reader several critical questions. For starters when things get violent in an office, even if they’re meant to be in “good fun,” did you get hurt?

She writes, “What your boss did was battery.

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