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To protect your legal rights, you need proof Under both federal and Ohio law, you have the right to a workplace free from unlawful discrimination. If your employer violates those anti-discrimination laws, then you have legal recourse—if you can prove it. Remember, not all unfair treatment in the workplace is illegal discrimination. To exercise your...

All employees should be paid for the hours they work—it’s a simple and fair concept. But every year, employers violate wage laws and find ways to avoid paying their workers what they are owed. A new report has shed light on how serious and widespread the problem of wage theft really is. The Economic Policy...

Discrimination is subtle and pervasive in many companies Every employee has the right to a workplace free from unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and other protected characteristics. Unfortunately, for too many employees in Ohio and across the nation, that’s not the case. Sometimes, discrimination is blatant, but...

An Ohio Wage Law Attorney Provides Details Federal and state laws protect the rights of workers to receive overtime pay when they work in excess of 40 hours in a week. But there are still employers who try to ignore these laws and pay workers less than they deserve. When this happens, workers have the...

Our Ohio discrimination attorneys reveal what to know In a recently filed lawsuit, former employees of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said they were victims of sexual and verbal harassment and discrimination. The billionaire couple is being sued by the two ex-employees, who say the exploitation occurred while working in the...

Ford Motor Company is being sued by the federal government over alleged discrimination against a pregnant woman. In the U.S., it is illegal to discriminate against people based on their sex, including pregnancy. Pregnant women are protected under the Civil Rights Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act amendment. When discrimination happens in the workplace, employees...

A wage lawyer in Ohio explains how pay is calculated for tipped employees The U.S. Labor Department recently ordered a restaurant to pay $76,000 in back wages to 10 employees who were forced to share their tips and paid below minimum wage, according to a recent news story about the wage law violation published in...

Ohio attorneys explain your rights, how to respond to harassment at work Workplace harassment is a serious problem that demands immediate attention. Each year, far too many people experience some form of harassment on the job. Just recently, a group of women who work for video game developer Activision Blizzard Inc. filed a harassment lawsuit,...

Ohio employment law attorneys explain current medical leave policies A proposal by President Joe Biden would allow most workers nationwide to eventually take up to 12 weeks of paid medical leave for a serious illness, for raising a newborn child and in certain other circumstances, according to CNBC and numerous other news outlets. Such a...

The U.S. Department of Labor is repealing a Trump-era rule it finalized in January that would have made it tougher for gig workers to be classified as employees instead of independent contractors. Gig workers — such as people who work for app-based services like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and DoorDash — are typically classified as contractors...