Why do Maryland employers and employees often prefer mediation to litigation?

Litigation of a workplace dispute is public, adversarial, and slow, and it usually ends the working relationship regardless of outcome. Mediation offers a faster, confidential alternative that keeps the parties in control of the result and protects the reputations of both the employee and the organization. Because it can address the actual workplace dynamics rather than narrowing the conflict to specific legal claims, it often produces more durable resolutions — and where the parties will continue to work together, it can repair the relationship rather than sever it. For an organization, the savings in cost, time, morale, and reputation frequently outweigh what is at stake in the individual dispute.