Employment Law

What Can I Do About Pay Discrimination At My Job?

It is unlawful to pay employees less to do the same job simply based on the employees’ race/color, religion, gender/sex (including pregnancy and LGBTQ+ status), or national origin. Often times, our team of attorneys hear from employees reporting that “I’m Black and...

Noncompete Contracts

Employment Law: What Is The Honest Belief Rule?

Our employment attorneys frequently blog about how employees prove race/color, religion, gender/sex, LGBTQ+ status, national origin, and disability discrimination claims against their employers. (Best Law Read: How Do You Win A Wrongful Termination Claim?; How Do You...

The EEOC Will Not Help You Properly Fill Out The Charging Form

Recently, our employee’s rights lawyers have blogged about various reasons why you shouldn’t file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) alone. (Best Law Read: Don’t File With The EEOC On Your Own; It’s Bad To File With The EEOC Without A...

How Do You Prove Causation In Wrongful Termination Cases?

If you have read our discrimination attorneys’ previous posts, you have learned a great deal about employment discrimination in all its forms. To recap: most states are considered at-will employment states, meaning your employer can fire you for any reason, as long as...

How Do I Prove Pretext For My Wrongful Termination?

At Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm, our attorneys constantly hear questions from potential clients asking how they could have been fired when they have received only excellent performance reviews and have no history of discipline at their jobs. Today, we are going to...

Can I Avoid Poor Performance Discipline By Reporting Discrimination?

Most employers are not going to tell an employee that they are being written up or wrongfully fired because he or she reported race/color, religion, age discrimination or because the employee opposed sexual harassment. (Best Law Read: What Are Examples Of Unlawful...