Call Today For
Your FREE and CONFIDENTIAL Consultation! 866-797-6040
Our employment lawyers are often faced with the employment discrimination and retaliation equivalent of the age old chicken and the egg debate. Specifically, a fired employee says that he or she was fired after raising complaints about unlawful race, gender, national...
One of the most recently-recognized protected classes is pregnancy. Pursuant to Ohio and federal law, it is unlawful to discriminate against an employee or applicant for employment on the basis of that person’s pregnancy. Specifically, Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02(A)...
As an employee, you may have had to use medical leave either to care for yourself or for a loved one. If eligible, you may have taken medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act which grants employees a designated amount of unpaid medical leave during the...
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...
One of our employment law attorneys was recently asked this question. Under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), the answer is typically yes. If an employer lets other employees schedule time off in one hour increments to come in late or leave early, then the...
The early bird may catch the worm, but what about the one that gets there late? According to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, if being late to work is a result of a disability, the employee may have a claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). In...
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...
There are a lot of ways that a wage and hour overtime claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) to grow horribly out of control. Our wage and hour attorneys have previously addressed how collective actions (joining on many employees into one claim) can...
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....
Do you own a smart phone? What about a home computer or laptop? Do you ever find that your work day doesn’t end after you clock out at the office or leave for the day? Are you required by your employer to check your email after hours for work-related issues? Do you...
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...