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Under Ohio law, it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an employee on the basis of that person’s race, color, religion, sex, military status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry. Ohio’s employment discrimination statutes generally only...
Our employment discrimination attorneys are often faced with employers that believe that their worst exposure for age discrimination cases is the back wages and then only the back wages for the reasonable amount of time. Wrong. First, under the Age Discrimination...
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently published “29 CFR Part 825, The Family and Medical Leave Act; Final Rule,” (“Final Rule”) which amended the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) with regard to coverage of military caregiver and exigency leaves. These changes...
Most people do not need an employment attorney to tell them that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against their employees based on, among other things, one’s race, gender or religious affiliation. Most people, however,...
So one of our employment law lawyers was asked the other day by a mother of a new born whether she could spread out her leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) after the birth of her baby by taking intermittent FMLA leave or a reduced leave schedule....
No matter how many times that our employment attorneys, warn clients about the dangers of social media, there are always some that just don’t get it. Our most recent example comes by way of Lineberry v. Richards, in which Carol Lineberry was a registered nurse at...
We posts blogs about recent developments in the law and to answer questions that our employment discrimination lawyers are asked about employee rights. Very infrequently do we post blogs on complaints that are filed or accusations that are made – mostly because...
As an employment law attorney, I run into this question quite often, and the short answer is “yes.” Like all short answers, however, there are a number of variables which can alter this preliminary response. For instance, a number of class action lawsuits...
When a new client retains us to handle their case, one of the first things the attorneys at Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firmadvise the client is not to post about his or her case on social media websites. A recent case provides a good reminder of precisely why we...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978, makes it unlawful for employers to discriminate based on an employee’s pregnancy. As pregnancy and maternity leave employment discrimination attorneys, we have seen...