If you’re like most people, you need a steady job to make ends meet and put food on the table for you and your family. But what happens if someone unlawfully interferes with your ability to make a living?
Texas and federal laws may give you the right to file a lawsuit. The employment law attorneys of Barry & Loewy LLP represent plaintiffs in a wide variety of employment disputes and can help you recover compensation for workplace injustices.
Employment lawsuits often arise from discrimination in the workplace. Consider these examples:
- A trucking company refuses to promote a promising executive because she’s Hispanic or decides to fire a senior supervisor because he’s too old.
- A large department store pays women employees considerably less than men doing the same jobs.
- A pharmaceutical sales company backs down from its decision to hire a female sales executive once the company learns that she’s pregnant.
- An employer requires Hispanic employees to speak only English at all times on the job, even though they work in the warehouse and rarely deal with customers.
The Texas Labor Code and federal Title VII ban on-the-job discrimination that is based on national origin, race, color, religion and sex. Laws also prohibit discrimination because of a worker’s age or disability.
There are other types of conduct that can lead to employment lawsuits. For instance, a worker may have a right to sue if he complains about an unsafe and illegal workplace condition – only to be promptly fired or passed over for promotion. The employer’s retaliation can give rise to a wrongful discharge claim.
A female worker who is asked for sexual favors on the job or the male worker who must endure sexual taunts may have a claim for sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Chapter 21 of the Texas Labor Code and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The employee may have a sexual harassment claim if the conduct interferes with her job or creates a hostile work environment.
The attorneys of Barry & Loewy LLP are familiar with the employment laws of Texas and can give you an honest assessment of your claim. If you think you have been the victim of on-the-job, discrimination, harassment or retaliation, please contact Barry & Loewy LLP today.
