Richard Celler
The Civil Rights Act was largely the result of President John F. Kennedy’s crusade to end discrimination in the United States. During President Kennedy’s civil rights speech given on June 11, 1963 he asked Congress for legislation “giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, […]
If you believe you are the victim of national origin discrimination in the workplace you should consult with an experienced Florida employment attorney right away. You may have the basis for a lawsuit. If successful, you could be awarded both compensatory and punitive damages if the national origin discrimination was intentional. Topics covered in this […]
I met with a client today who had worked for a company for 15 years. He is 66 years old and had grown the company from nothing into a multimillion dollar a year empire. Late last year (2013), a new CEO came in who was young (38). The CEO immediately started making age related comments […]
Until relatively recently workers frequently struggled to choose between things such as staying home after the birth of a baby or caring for a sick family member and keeping their jobs because employers were not required to allow employees time off for medical emergencies. Fortunately, the Family and Medical Leave Act changed all of that. […]
While things have certainly changed for women in the workplace over the last several decades, women still face employment related issues that men do not. Pregnancy, for example, is something that only women have to deal with in the workplace. Women still worry about breaking the news of a pregnancy, finding a job when pregnant, […]
As an employee you likely know that you are entitled to overtime pay under certain conditions. Unfortunately, most workers don’t have a firm grasp of how to calculate overtime pay. A
Workers in the United States enjoy many protections under federal laws. For example, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or gender. Sexual harassment is a form of illegal gender discrimination and your employer can be held legally responsible if you are […]
America is supposed to be the great “melting pot” right? While that may have once been the case, the country has been experiencing a more exclusionist attitude of late – or maybe we are just noticing it more on a national scale. Either way, the issue of national origin seems to be popping up in […]
The Family and Medical Leave Acts is a federal law that protects covered workers when they need to take time off work for an eligible family or medical emergency. Prior to the enactment of the Family and Medical Leave Act, or FMLA, workers typically risked the loss of their job when an emergency required the […]
Workers in the United States are protected by a number of important state and federal laws that apply to the workplace. Among those laws is the federal Fair Labor and Standards Act, or FLSA. The FLSA acts requires, among other things, that covered workers be paid at least the established minimum wage as well as […]