Employment
lawyers do not deal with the ordinary law suits; they specialize in labor laws,
and fight cases of employees who are wrongfully terminated by their employers.
The employment lawyers cover the relationship between employers and employees.
Apart from obligations, rights and responsibilities they also specialize in other
matters, including the safety of the employees in the workplace, discrimination
or termination for reasons that are not right. They deal in all areas covered
by the labor laws; there is no doubt that labor laws are very complicated and
contentious and can be interpreted in many ways.
If you
are working in any company in New York, and if you are faced with a wrongful
termination, discrimination on gender or racial issues, which infringes on your
right as an employee given under the labor laws, enacted by either the federal
or state government, you can consult an employment lawyer. If you are located
in the city, go through a list issued by a trade journal, which highlights employment lawyer NYC. Select a name, call or personally
meet the lawyer of your choice without hesitation, it is your right as an
employee given by the laws of the land and no one will question it. The
lawyer you have engaged will treat your case as unique and will tailor
strategies that would suit the circumstances, instead of applying the same
strategies for all cases. Whether you want to fight a case for not getting
severance of vacation pay or your employer refuses to give you a reference
letter after years of faithful service, the lawyer will sit down with you and
create a unique strategy that applies to your case and your case alone. For
example, if you are new comer in New York or this is your first job, and you
become pregnant, the employer threatens you with termination, or refuses to
give you leave for childbirth the NYC law gives what is known as 'reasonable
accommodations' which covers all the pregnancy and childbirth issues. From the employer's
point of view reasonable accommodation means the employer's business should not
suffer due to medical conditions associated with pregnancy.
A NY employment lawyer is
not different from employment lawyers in other states. He or she still fight
cases of discrimination, unlawful termination, and the rights of the employees,
but the labor law in New York is different from the labor law of other states,
particularly in the areas that do not come under the federal law. For example,
minimum wages under the New York Labor Law is $13.50 per hour for businesses
with 10 or less employees and $15/- for companies that have 11 or more
employees. In Suffolk the minimum wage is $12.00 per hour. Therefore, if you
are getting 13.50 per hour, the employer is not breaking any law, but if he is
paying you $12 per hour he is breaking the law and you need to contact a New
York Employment lawyer to fight your case and get you justice.
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