The Consequences Of Employment Discrimination Claims Are Huge.

In today's tough job market, many employees find themselves unable to find and maintain employment, unable to achieve promotions, and unable to get the raises they so desperately need to afford their basic necessities. Employers are finding themselves in a financial bind to produce and sell the same goods and services for lower prices to meet the average consumer's reduced buying ability, often having to decrease their labor forces, demand more from the workers they are able to keep, and often being unable to provide their valued employees with the raises they deserve.

Your employment attorneys at The Spitz Law Firm are here to help resolve employment discrimination claims in three ways: to prevent its occurrence by providing effective counsel to employers big and small, defend those companies against those claims, and to help protect the rights of employees who have suffered discrimination.

There are federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age, disability, color, religion, pregnancy, and national origin. These laws can protect employees from being discriminated against in any matter related to employment, including hire, promotion, tenure, terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, and termination. These laws may provide money for people who were discriminated against and make retaliation against employees who have sued or filed complaints with the government for discrimination illegal.

Claims just through the EEOC cost employers $274.4 million last year alone, and likely more than double that in civil suits brought directly against the employer in court.

Claims often arise over allegations that an employer:

• refused to hire, promote, or train an employee because of race, sex, disability, etc.


• fired an employee without just cause because of race, sex, disability, etc.


• paid one employee more to do a job that was very similar to another employee because of their sex.


• forced an employee to take a leave of absence, fired you, or gave you worse health insurance or disability benefits because an employee became pregnant or had a child.


• created a hostile or abusive work environment.         


• created an overly sexual work environment.


• required an employee to retire earlier than you wanted to.

These types of discrimination claims cannot be resolved by just removing the complaining employee from the business without exposing the employer to even greater liability. The best course of action for both the employer and employee is to get their counsel involved as early as possible to assist in guiding them through the minefields that are present in discrimination claims.

Call The Right Employment Discrimination Attorney 24/7 At: 1-888-70-RIGHT or (216) 291-4744