Employment Discrimination Blog

Finding the courage to oppose discrimination at your job can be hard. To do that with the threat of being fired or demoted hanging over you can make even the most courageous employee reconsider whether they should speak up. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for an employer to retaliate against an employee who reports or speaks […]

Sexual harassment can have devastating effects on an employee. It can affect the employee’s performance at work, their ability to move up through their organization or even keep their job, and their overall mental and physical well-being. We’ve talked in a number of previous posts about how to recognize when you have a sexual harassment […]

Harassment is one of those words that can be used in a number of different ways in life, but has a very specific meaning in the law. In life, you might say that telemarketer that always calls at the same time every evening is harassing you. When you go to a baseball game, you may […]

We talked recently about how employment discrimination victims can use their discrimination claims to make a lasting and effective change to their employer’s policies and practices. But what other types of remedies can discrimination victims recover through their claim? Depending on the case, employment discrimination can result in a variety of injuries to the victim, […]

Not all interactions with your co-workers and supervisors occur inside the walls of your workplace during normal working hours. More and more, our interactions extend beyond the walls of our workplace because we are now more connected than ever through social networking and other forms of communication. Many employees are now working remotely from their […]

If you’re considering bringing an employment discrimination claim against your employer, you may have a number of goals in mind. First, you likely want the discrimination against you to stop, if it hasn’t already, and for your company to make you whole. Many victims of employment discrimination also want to ensure that their co-workers don’t […]

In past postings, we’ve noted that employees who are suffering discrimination or harassment at work should report the incident immediately to their human resources department or a supervisor to give the employer an opportunity to investigate and fix the issue. But what happens when your complaints go unanswered to the point that you simply no […]

As a lawyer, one of the easier cases to argue is one where there is indisputable evidence your client was wronged. This is the smoking gun situation, where the defendant is clearly at fault. In the world of sexual harassment, these smoking gun cases are rare. What is more common is a war of words—different […]

You believe you’ve been discriminated against at work and have a legal claim. Now what? You need to talk to a lawyer but how do you find the right one? Of course, we’d like for you to consider Eisenberg & Baum, but we also know that finding the best lawyer for your case is like any […]

Sexual harassment is a form of gender discrimination, which is prohibited under federal law and many state and local laws, including the New York Human Rights Law and the New York City Administrative Code. The act of harassment itself, which generally involves some unwanted sexual conduct, is carried out by individuals in the workplace, like […]