Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination

Employment discrimination occurs constantly in the workplace and we have handled cases against Fortune 500 corporations as well as small companies.

Federal law and the United States Constitution provide the following protections:

• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or natural origin.
• The Equal Pay Act of 1963 prohibits an employer from paying different wages to employees of the opposite sex.
• The Age Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967 protects individuals from 40 years of age or older from discriminatory employment practices.
• The American Disabilities Act of 1990 prohibits employment discrimination against individuals with disabilities.

Under the aforementioned laws, it is illegal to discriminate in any aspect of the terms and conditions of employment including hiring and firing, compensation, fringe benefits, pay retirement plans and disability leave, classification of employees, and transferring, promoting, laying off or recalling of employees. It is also illegal to engage in harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or age and retaliate against any individuals for filing a charge of discrimination, opposing discriminatory practices or participating in the investigation of discrimination.

A few of the cases we have handled are as follows:

• Female employee at a Fortune 500 company paid less than males in same positions
• African American employee not equally paid or promoted
• Female employee sexually harassed by her physician boss
• Male employee sexually harassed by his female boss