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Were You Treated Unfairly While on the Job?

Morgan & Morgan’s work attorneys file the many work litigation cases in the nation, including those including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage theft, employee misclassification, defamation, retaliation, rejection of leave, and executive pay conflicts.

The office needs to be a safe location. Unfortunately, some employees go through unreasonable and illegal conditions by deceitful employers. Workers might not understand what their rights in the workplace are, or may hesitate of speaking out against their employer in fear of retaliation. These labor offenses can result in lost earnings and benefits, missed out on chances for advancement, and undue tension.

Unfair and inequitable labor practices versus staff members can take many kinds, consisting of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, rejection to give an affordable accommodation, denial of leave, employer retaliation, and wage and hour violations. Workers who are victim to these and other unethical practices might not know their rights, or might hesitate to speak out versus their employer for fear of retaliation.

At Morgan & Morgan, our employment lawyers manage a range of civil lawsuits cases involving unfair labor practices against workers. Our lawyers possess the understanding, commitment, and experience needed to represent workers in a wide variety of labor disagreements. In fact, Morgan & Morgan has been recognized for filing more labor and employment cases than any other company.

If you think you may have been the victim of unjust or illegal treatment in the office, call us by finishing our free case assessment type.

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What Does Labor Law and Employment Law Cover?

Our practice represents individuals who have been the victim of:

Wrongful Termination.
Discrimination (e.g., sex, race, color, harassment, national origin, religious beliefs, age, and impairment).
Harassment (e.g., Unwanted sexual advances, Hostile Workplace).
Unfair Labor Practices (e.g., denial of incomes, overtime, tip pooling, and equivalent pay).
Misclassification.
Retaliation.
Denial of Leave (e.g. Family and Medical Leave Act).
Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA).
Americans with Disability Act declares.
Executive Pay Disputes.
What Constitutes Wrongful Termination?

Sometimes workers are release for factors that are unreasonable or unlawful. This is described wrongful termination, wrongful discharge, or wrongful termination.

There are numerous situations that may be grounds for a wrongful termination claim, consisting of:

Firing a staff member out of retaliation.
Discrimination.
Firing a whistleblower.
Firing a worker who won’t do something unlawful for their employer.
If you believe you may have been fired without correct cause, our labor and work lawyers may be able to assist you recover back pay, unsettled wages, and other types of payment.

What Are the Most Common Forms of Workplace Discrimination?

It is illegal to discriminate versus a task candidate or staff member on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, impairment, or age. However, some employers do just that, causing a hostile and inequitable office where some workers are dealt with more favorably than others.

Workplace discrimination can take lots of types. Some examples include:

to employ someone on the basis of their skin color.
Passing over a certified female employee for a promotion in favor of a male staff member with less experience.
Not supplying equal training chances for workers of different religious backgrounds.
Imposing job eligibility requirements that deliberately screens out individuals with disabilities.
Firing someone based on a safeguarded classification.
What Are Some Examples of Workplace Harassment?

When workers are subjected to slurs, assaults, hazards, ridicule, offending jokes, undesirable sexual advances, or verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, it can be considered workplace harassment. Similar to workplace discrimination, workplace harassment produces a hostile and abusive work environment.

Examples of work environment harassment include:

Making unwelcome remarks about an employee’s look or body.
Telling a repulsive or sexual joke to a coworker.
Using slurs or racial epithets.
Making prejudicial declarations about a worker’s sexual preference.
Making negative comments about a staff member’s religions.
Making prejudicial declarations about a staff member’s birth place or household heritage.
Making unfavorable comments or jokes about the age of an employee over the age of 40.
Workplace harassment can also take the kind of quid professional quo harassment. This means that the harassment results in an intangible modification in an employee’s employment status. For example, an employee may be required to tolerate sexual harassment from a supervisor as a condition of their continued employment.

Which Industries Have one of the most Overtime and Base Pay Violations?

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) developed specific workers’ rights, consisting of the right to a base pay (set federally at $7.25 as of 2020) and overtime pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek for non-exempt staff members.

However, some companies try to cut expenses by denying workers their rightful pay through deceitful methods. This is called wage theft, and consists of examples such as:

Paying an employee less than the federal base pay.
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