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Are you an employee of a city? Are you an employee of a township? What about a county? Have you ever been injured or been in an accident involving someone who works for one of these entities? If any of these circumstances apply to you, you are dealing with what Ohio...
One of the newer forms of employment discrimination that employment discrimination attorneys in Ohio deal with is pregnancy discrimination. Under current Ohio law, known as the Ohio Fair Employment Practices Act, or FEPA, it is an unlawful employment practice for an...
In March 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Kasten v. St. Gobain that both oral and written complaints receive retaliation protection under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Supreme Court held: The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Act) sets...
Many employees choose to file complaints of harassment and/or discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) after being subjected to illegal employment practices in the workplace. More often than not, and EEOC investigation results in the...
As employment law attorneys, one of the situations we see a lot is that in which an employer is making offhand, isolated, and alleged discriminatory comments to an employee in the workplace. Often times, a potential new client comes to us and asks whether this...
Spitz, The Employee’s Law Firm handles a lot of lawsuits against employers who discriminate, harass, or retaliate against employees. But can an employer also file a lawsuit against one of its former employees? The answer, perhaps not surprisingly, is yes. One of the...
Have you ever needed to take medical leave under the Family Medical Leave Act? Ever had an employer who was not very helpful in making sure that all the proper paperwork was completed for your FMLA leave? Do yourself a favor and learn how to protect yourself in order...
Like many other employment law attorneys, we have been anxiously awaiting Federal Judge Christina Snyder’s ruling on whether Walmart can be added as a defendant in the case of Everardo Carrillo, et al. v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., et al., which is currently pending...
In most of the cases our firm’s employment attorneys handle, the issue of pretext plays a central role. Employees and regular people don’t use the word pretext. It is one of those legal jargon words. What does pretext mean? First, in plain English: “My boss lied...
Before a recent deposition, I asked a defense employment attorney to step into the hallway to see if her client, who was about to be deposed, wanted to discuss settlement before we started. In response, this employment attorney threatened me and my client with...
Under Ohio Revised Code § 4112.02, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it is illegal for employer to discriminate against an employee because of the employee’s national origin or ethnic background. But, does it protect...
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Ohio) recently came down with an interesting decision highlighting a fine-line between a lawful and unlawful termination of an employee complaining of disability discrimination for failure to provide a reasonable accommodation. In...
Many people across the United States are tipped employees or employees who are paid less than the required minimum wage, but are then compensated with tips in order to make up the difference. In addition to state laws protecting and defining, “tipped employees,” the...
Upon termination on an employment relationship, many employees are presented with an opportunity to receive severance packages from their former employers. As employment attorneys, we regularly encounter severance agreements in which the terminated employee has...
All the women in Iowa, flee now. Quit your jobs and move to Cleveland, Ohio to avoid sexual discrimination, harassment and pig bosses. That is what most commentators are saying in response t0o Nelson v. James H. Knight DDS, P.C., where the Iowa Supreme Court,...
I always wondered while criminals keep pushing their luck. You always see these embezzlers get busted because they couldn’t just walk away with $50,000 and kept pushing their luck over and over until they’re finally busted after taking home a couple hundred grand. ...