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I'm not a lawyer, and there are a lot of little facets to these rules so I could be wrong. This looks basically like a "legal costs insurance", so the company
by henryfjordan 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and there are a lot of little facets to these rules so I could be wrong.
This looks basically like a "legal costs insurance", so the company pays into a fund that then pays the lawyers. I assume the company has no control over the money once it is in the insurance fund. So long as the lawyer doesn't represent the company directly in other dealings then yes they should be able to represent you in an employment dispute.
If the company was just providing direct access to their in-house counsel then no, that'd be a conflict of interest.
- SisypheanLife 7y agoMost legal plans offered, even through third parties, explicitly do not cover employee-employer disputes. This has been the case at both Microsoft and Amazon that I have seen.
- henryfjordan 7y agoThat's just rude. I think so long as the funding is out of the company's control there's no ethical violations but again there's a lot of rules and I could be wrong.