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When FMLA Paperwork Requests Become Protected Activity The Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) is complicated. There are forms, deadlines, doctors, HR people, managers, and enough fine print to make any normal employee feel, well, just plain lost and confused. Many...
How Late Reporting Can Kill An FMLA Claim Medical leave using the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) can be a lifeline when an employee is sick, caring for a family member, or dealing with a serious medical issue. It lets employees keep their jobs while they handle...
Despite Claims Of Gender Discrimination And Retaliation Gender Discrimination in the workplace violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Retaliation for reporting gender discrimination is illegal. Employees should be able to report employment...
Even If You Are Pregnant And Scheduled For FMLA Leave Pregnancy protects employees from pregnancy discrimination. The Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) protects eligible employees who need maternity leave. Neither one gives an employee a golden ticket to make...
What Employees Must Do To Trigger Employer’s ADA Accommodation Process Employees dealing with disability discrimination often assume that if their employer knows they are struggling, the law will step in to protect them. That assumption feels fair—but in employment...
How Criminal History Decisions Can Lead To Race Discrimination Under Title VII You apply for a job. You’re perfectly qualified. It’s the right role, the right pay, the right timing—one of those rare opportunities that actually fits. Then something happens. You get...
Even If You Were Looking For Moonshine Let’s start with a hard truth: not every employee who gets fired has a wrongful termination or employment discrimination case. Sometimes the firing has nothing to do with race, gender, age, or disability discrimination....
Evidence Matters In Employment Claims - How To Get It A good employee walks into work, does the job, announces a pregnancy—and suddenly things feel off. The employer controls the tools. The pay drops. The opportunity disappears. That feels like employment...
When A Forced Resignation Becomes Illegal Retaliation There are a lot of bosses out there who think they are so very clever—clever enough to beat the employment discrimination laws and the entire legal system. These bosses and managers figure if they want to get rid...
Employment Cases Are Complex And Need Real Experienced Lawyers To Handle When Itzhak Perlman picks up a violin, it’s effortless—clean, precise, and exactly what it’s supposed to be. If I, as an employment attorney, picked up that same violin and pull the bow across...
When Failure To Investigate Proves Retaliation And Wrongful Termination Getting wrongfully fired after doing exactly what your employer told you to do is the kind of thing that makes an employee question everything about the workplace. Your employer has a policy:...
What Qualifies As Race Discrimination And Racially Hostile Work Environment You heard something at work that crossed the line—something clearly tied to race, religion, or another protected class. Not awkward. Not inappropriate. Offensive. Really offensive. And your...
Failure To Hire And Race Discrimination Explained You land the job. The employer says yes. You’re already picturing your first day, your paycheck, maybe even telling your family you finally caught a break. Then—just like that—the offer disappears. No explanation...
Life happens. Kids get sick. Work blows up. Your employer suddenly needs you in a “can’t-miss” meeting that absolutely could have been an email. For an employee dealing with employment discrimination, wrongful termination, or workplace chaos, showing up to...
You think your employer violated employment discrimination. You think you were wrongfully fired. You feel discrimination—race/color discrimination, gender discrimination, retaliation, maybe even disability discrimination—and you’re ready to fight back. But here’s the...
How Courts Treat Inconsistent Statements In Employment Law Cases You’re an employee sitting in a deposition in the middle of a race or wrongful termination case. A lawyer is asking questions. You’re under oath. You’re nervous. You’re trying to recall dates,...