We handle all areas of workplace or employment litigation, including the following:
- Discrimination: an adverse action taken against an employee, such as termination, denial in a promotion, or rejection from a job, because of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, nationality, or ethnicity.
- Failure to Accommodate Disability/Engage in Interactive Process: disabled employees are entitled to receive reasonable accommodations for their disabilities. Employers are obligated to engage in a good faith interactive process to find a reasonable accommodation for a known disability.
- Retaliation/Wrongful Termination: being fired or having adverse action taken against an employee because he or she engaged in protected activity, including taking a disability leave, or opposing any activity that he or she believed was illegal, such as voicing concerns over workplace safety, perceived discrimination, or financial irregularities.
- Harassment:
- Sexual harassment: (1) being asked for sexual favors in exchange for work perks, such as keeping your job, or receiving a promotion; or (2) sexually inappropriate behavior that creates a hostile work environment.
- Employees also can be subjected to a hostile work environment based on their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc., such as being subjected to racist remarks, or jokes.
- Defamation: any false statements of fact made to others that injure an individual’s personal or business reputation. Typically, this claim arises when an employer makes false comments about an employee, such as falsely accusing the employee of theft or embezzlement.