When To Hire a Workplace Attorney
Workplace law is a broad and far reaching expanse of legal protections for workers that encompass many areas. Years ago, workers were treated almost as slaves as big companies exploited them even at the younger ages of children to the extent that reforms were made to eliminate the abuse.
While child labor has all but been abolished, there is still enough abuse going on to merit a distinctive place in the law for specialized attorneys to participate and represent those employees who are still being abused.
Abusive areas such as discrimination sexually, age-wise, gender, race and many other areas come into play during hiring, termination and various day to day incidents that violate basic employee rights that are today written into the law of the land.
For example if you are being interviewed for a job, it is against the law for the interviewing company to turn you down for a job because you are too old, or you are the wrong race or sex, or if they cannot give your a reason as to why you don't legitimately fit into their hiring requirements.
During a person's workday, it is illegal to single a person out for no reason and harass or intimidate an employee. This might seem to be far fetched, but it can happen at the lowest levels in companies when supervisors become very skilled in intimidating and bullying employees without their superiors knowing about it.
Race has come a long way from being a primary discrimination factor to one that under the law is a non factor in employment situations. Unfortunately it is still a factor in some situations, but there is protection for a person of color or any other racial minority from harassment and discrimination.
Companies can discriminate in many overt and covert ways, and all of the methods that discriminate are illegal in that sense. Even the development of qualifications for promotion that would be supposedly difficult for a person from a different culture would be an illegal discriminatory factor.
Workers compensation is a big discrimination situation many times when a boss subtly discourages an injured employee from seeking any further medical care other than that from a recommended doctor made by the employer. There may be, and frequently are referrals to medical specialists who are very necessary to the recovery of the worker. However, employers are afraid that additional medical expense may hike the premiums on their worker compensation policies.
Wage and hour discrimination is another big area where people who are asked to work overtime, are unfairly paid, or paid not at all for their extra working hours. Since many employees are not up to speed about their rights under the wage, hour, and overtime laws, they are particularly vulnerable.
Employees who feel that they are being taken advantage of, harassed or discriminated against should not feel uncomfortable in contacting a workplace attorney to look into their situation. Chances are they are not the only employee with whom the same type of abuse is happening to. In many cases, employers can get away with the same abuse for years, by firing people who catch on and do not have the courage to seek legal advice.
People who are employees have the right to be paid a fair wage for the hours that they work, and to be entitled to the same expectations in regard to advancement on merit as anyone else in the company has. They should not have to endure oppression, sexual, gender, age or racial oppression, fear or discrimination, and if any of that is occurring, they should feel fully able to contact a workplace attorney without fear of any repercussions.
While child labor has all but been abolished, there is still enough abuse going on to merit a distinctive place in the law for specialized attorneys to participate and represent those employees who are still being abused.
Abusive areas such as discrimination sexually, age-wise, gender, race and many other areas come into play during hiring, termination and various day to day incidents that violate basic employee rights that are today written into the law of the land.
For example if you are being interviewed for a job, it is against the law for the interviewing company to turn you down for a job because you are too old, or you are the wrong race or sex, or if they cannot give your a reason as to why you don't legitimately fit into their hiring requirements.
During a person's workday, it is illegal to single a person out for no reason and harass or intimidate an employee. This might seem to be far fetched, but it can happen at the lowest levels in companies when supervisors become very skilled in intimidating and bullying employees without their superiors knowing about it.
Race has come a long way from being a primary discrimination factor to one that under the law is a non factor in employment situations. Unfortunately it is still a factor in some situations, but there is protection for a person of color or any other racial minority from harassment and discrimination.
Companies can discriminate in many overt and covert ways, and all of the methods that discriminate are illegal in that sense. Even the development of qualifications for promotion that would be supposedly difficult for a person from a different culture would be an illegal discriminatory factor.
Workers compensation is a big discrimination situation many times when a boss subtly discourages an injured employee from seeking any further medical care other than that from a recommended doctor made by the employer. There may be, and frequently are referrals to medical specialists who are very necessary to the recovery of the worker. However, employers are afraid that additional medical expense may hike the premiums on their worker compensation policies.
Wage and hour discrimination is another big area where people who are asked to work overtime, are unfairly paid, or paid not at all for their extra working hours. Since many employees are not up to speed about their rights under the wage, hour, and overtime laws, they are particularly vulnerable.
Employees who feel that they are being taken advantage of, harassed or discriminated against should not feel uncomfortable in contacting a workplace attorney to look into their situation. Chances are they are not the only employee with whom the same type of abuse is happening to. In many cases, employers can get away with the same abuse for years, by firing people who catch on and do not have the courage to seek legal advice.
People who are employees have the right to be paid a fair wage for the hours that they work, and to be entitled to the same expectations in regard to advancement on merit as anyone else in the company has. They should not have to endure oppression, sexual, gender, age or racial oppression, fear or discrimination, and if any of that is occurring, they should feel fully able to contact a workplace attorney without fear of any repercussions.