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Short answer, no. In Washington State, the only context where you can sue your employer is for deliberate intent to harm. Generally speaking, what that means is that you can sue your employer if your employer hurts you. The employer has to be doing something to hurt you.
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deliberately and it has to be in furtherance of the actual employment interests of the employer. If your manager assaulted you, he'd have to be assaulting you in a context where the assault was in furtherance of the actual, the objectives of the employer. I mean, that's a pretty narrow scope because generally assaults by managers of employees is not in the interest of the employer. Although there are some cases out there that describe scenarios where
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You know, I remember there being a lumberjack, you know, where the manager was just a complete hard ass and was like beating the people who are lumberjacks to get them to work harder. And that was the context where they said that was deliberate intent to harm. But, yeah, very difficult to sue your employer. Your remedy, if you're injured on the job, is to sue third parties who might have hurt you or you can make a workers comp claim. And that's pretty much about it.
