There have been a lot of recent public discussions concerning equal pay for equal work and other laws regarding employment discrimination based on gender. Employers must pay men and women the same wages or salary if they are equally qualified and doing the same work. This does not mean they must have the job title, […]
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Employment decisions based on a person’s age are illegal. What can you do if you suspect you were turned down for a job because of your age? In order to take legal action based on age discrimination, you must prove your age was the reason for the employment decision. For instance, if you are over […]
New Collective Action filed in the Eastern District of New York Altaf Chowdhury v. Peter Luger, Inc., et al., Case No. 14-cv-5880 On October 7, 2014, Lead Plaintiff Altaf Chowdhury on behalf of himself and those similarly situated filed a class and collective action lawsuit in United States District Court – Eastern District of New […]
As you get older, you tend to feel more confident about things. You might have a comfortable savings and some equity in you home. Though you might be strapped with college costs or helping adult children in other ways, in general, things are far more secure than they were in early adulthood. All of the […]
In 2013, it was held that an unpaid intern working in New York City did not have a right to sue for sexual harassment because she was not an “employee” under the City’s Human Rights Law. Since the classification of “employee” did not apply to unpaid interns, such interns also did not have standing to […]
“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.”– Samuel Johnson The Employment Non – Discrimination Act, otherwise referred to as “ENDA,” has been unsuccessfully shuffled through the halls of Congress since 1994. The controversial bill, which would decisively extend federal protection against discrimination to homosexual and transgender individuals, is currently pending in […]