Blog Posts in June, 2017

Like many federal statutes, the Affordable Care Act includes anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation protections for employees, which are particularly helpful for health care workers. Specifically, ...

The ADA, or the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibits employers from discriminating against “qualified” individuals with disabilities with regard to employment decisions. This prohibition extends ...

In order for an employer to be subject to the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), there are certain hoops that must be jumped through. One of those hoops is often referred to in legal ...

When an EEOC charge is filed against an employer, the EEOC has the duty and the authority to investigate whether reasonable cause exists to believe the alleged discrimination occurred. During that ...

Our federal laws make it unlawful for an employer to discriminate against any employee based on certain recognized protected characteristics. Those protected characteristics include race and age. ...

A severance agreement, when properly executed, is a binding contract between employees and employers, created at the time an employee separates from that employer. In most cases, the employee is ...