Regardless of how devoted you may be to your job and your employer, you may one day face a family or medical crisis that requires you to take a significant amount of time off of work. Fortunately, your position with your employer may be safe, despite your leave of absence, if you qualify to take […]
For a woman, one of the most difficult balancing acts is being a mother and an employee. In years past, women often had to choose between the two because employers were less than sympathetic to requests for extended absences following the birth of a child. Fortunately, times – and attitudes – have changed in recent […]
In the United States, workers are fortunate to have a number of important state and federal employment laws that protect them from things such as unsafe working conditions, unfair wages, and, being required to work too many hours. Many of these protections workers now have were hard fought, making it important that they be respected […]
Ideally, your workplace should be someone you actually want to be each day. Of course, we can’t all be fortunate enough to have a job that we genuinely enjoy; however, no one should be forced to endure a workplace that is downright hostile. In fact, in the United States there are both state and federal […]
The word “harassment” is one of those words that we all feel we understand, yet providing a concrete definition for the word often proves difficult. Despite the inherent difficulty in defining the word “harassment”, federal laws in the United States do protect workers from workplace harassment. If you believe that you are the victim of […]
Since its inception, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has afforded countless employees the opportunity to care for themselves or a family member with a serious health issue without having to fear that they will lose their job for doing so. Whether you are the one facing a health problem, or you simply wish […]
In the United States, a covered employer is required to pay most employees overtime for all time worked beyond 40 hours in a given workweek. The overtime requirement, as well as the minimum wage laws, are found in the Fair Labor Standards Act, or FLSA. The FLSA is a federal law that is administered and […]
Although we have come a long way with respect to discrimination in the United States over the past several years we have yet to eradicate discrimination completely in America. As an Employment discrimination attorney, for example, we continue to see discriminatory actions occur far more often than most people realize. If you believe that you […]
Florida LGBT Employment Discrimination: Are You a Victim from Richard Celler Recently, a major victory occurred with SCOTUS’s same-sex marriage ruling; however, discrimination continues to occur in other areas, such as the workplace. Learn more about LGBT employment discrimination in this presentation.
One more thing a disabled job applicant needs to know is that the law also protects an applicant from answering medical questions relating to a disability as well as from being required to submit to a medical examination before a job offer has been extended. Topics covered in this report include: What Is Disability Discrimination […]