The Ottinger Firm has handled many workplace discrimination cases. Workplace discrimination can be in the form of: age discrimination, race discrimination, religious discrimination, gender discrimination, disability discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, etc. If you believe that you have a discrimination case, place call a NY Lawyer at 866-571-5010 or simply fill out the form to the left.
Here are some examples of potentially unlawful workplace discrimination situations that employees may face:
- Hiring/Firing/Promotions: You apply for a job for which you have experience and excellent qualifications, but you are not hired because some of the company's long-time clients are more comfortable dealing with employees of a different race, religion, gender etc.; you are told that you are laid off due to company cutbacks and reorganization, while others in the same job and with less seniority than you keep their jobs; you have worked for your company for several years, receiving exemplary reviews and an employee-of-the-year award, yet each of the five times you have applied for promotions, the positions you applied for are instead filled by less qualified employees.
- Pay: You worked your way up from the position of cook's helper to chef. A different chef with similar training and work experience was recently hired, and you find out that he will be paid more than you; you are a top salesperson for your company, but are moved to a less desirable territory while a salesperson with much lower sales is given your territory and client base, enabling him to make much more in commissions than you will make for several years.
- Benefits: Your company's health insurance policy does not cover your spouse, because it is assumed that he will have his own benefits, while your male coworkers have their wives covered by the policy. Because your husband is between jobs, you have to pay increased health benefits on his behalf that your coworkers do not pay for their wives.
If any of these things have happened to you on the job, you may have suffered discrimination.
If you believe that you are a victim of workplace discrimination, please call a NY attorney at 866-571-5010 or click contact us.