Labour Law Attorney – A detailed study

Our practice caters to individuals, unions, and select small businesses needing legal advice, counselling, and litigation representation involving an array of labour and employment issues. We have represented a wide range of individuals from diverse backgrounds and in diverse fields—from CEOs and C-Level Executives to hourly labourers. We have litigated against the largest companies in the world as well as smaller companies and even individuals.

 

Responsibilities of Labor Law Attorney New York

 

·    Employers in NYC are not allowed to make hiring, firing, or other important workplace decisions based on an employee’s age, race, gender, disability, pregnancy, religion, national origin, or in some cases sexual preference.

·   Employees should be treated with dignity and cannot be subjected to verbal or physical harassment in the workplace relating to age, race, gender, disability, pregnancy, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.

·      Employees, whether women or men, should not be verbally or physically sexually harassed in the workplace, and employers must remedy the harassment once it is known or should reasonably be known.

·  Employees should be paid for their overtime. Employees should not be forced to work off the clock. Employees should be paid at least minimum wage.

·      And employees should not be improperly classified as exempt or as independent contractors to avoid the Fair Labour Standards Act or state overtime laws.

·  While seemingly straightforward, wage and hour laws are highly complex. Our Labor law attorney new york firm helps individuals understand their rights to minimum wages and overtime and litigates on behalf of both individuals and classes of individuals when employers violate their obligations and legal obligations.

·    Our firm also helps small businesses navigate the complexities of these wage and hour laws and advises them on the proper payment of overtime.

·    An intentionally false statement (or one made with reckless disregard for the truth) can induce a party to act, to its detriment, that it otherwise would not have taken.

·   Our firm has successfully litigated fraud claims and such claims often go hand-in-hand with breach of contract situations.

·  Employers cannot end, demote, or otherwise penalize employees because of a good-faith complaint of discrimination or report of fraud, abuse, or other potentially unlawful activity.

·       Business deals, commission agreements, non-compete and other restrictive covenants, partnership agreements, bonus agreements, employment contracts, and severance agreements are just a few of the many types of contracts found in the workplace.

·     Our firm drafts these agreements, advises individuals and companies on their rights under such agreements and then litigates in instances where the agreements are breached.

·     Labour unions provide a collective voice to employees that allow them to have contractual rights within the workplace.

·  Federal law also protects certain concerted workplace activities.  Our firm has a long history of representing unions in contract negotiations, grievance hearings, litigation, and other complex labour matters.