Blog posts in June, 2018

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state and local laws are designed to prevent discrimination on the basis of a person's physical ...

Does your employer have a written overtime policy in place? If not, there is a good chance you are being underpaid for the hours you work in excess of ...

If you are the victim of employment discrimination , you normally have the right to seek damages under New York State and New York City laws. If you ...

You often hear critics of New York public schools argue that it is “impossible to fire bad teachers” due to tenure and civil service laws, but that is ...

Last August we discussed a pending disability discrimination case against a western New York truck dealership. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity ...

It many employment discrimination cases, it is not necessarily clear who the “employer” is. Many New York City workers have several masters who may be ...

In a disability discrimination lawsuit, there is a three-step process that courts use to decide whether there is a “material” dispute that justifies ...

On May 4, 2018, New York City's revised Paid Sick and Safe Leave Law took effect. All businesses with five or more employees who work at least 80 ...

Disability discrimination is not limited to situations in which an employer simply refuses to hire someone due to a physical or mental impairment. It ...