Employment Law - Civil Rights - Housing Law
On April 21, 2011, after a two-week trial and 13 hours of deliberations, a jury rendered a verdict finding that a social worker, represented by Margaret McIntyre and John Beranbaum, was discriminated against because of her disability when she was denied a promotion. The case was heard in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.
The case [...]
The major Federal employment statues also protect employees from being retaliated against for asserting their rights under those laws. The Federal law that requires that employers pay minimum and overtime wages (the Fair Labor Standards Act) provides that an employer can’t retaliate if an employee “has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be [...]
Below is information in Russian for employees of Project OHR, relating to the pending lawsuit Severin v. Project OHR, case no. 10CV09696 in the Southern District of New York. An English translation follows.
ВНИМАНИЮ ВСЕХ НЫНЕШНИХ И БЫВШИХ СОТРУДНИКОВ КОМПАНИИ PROJECT OHR
Если Вы работали в компании Project OHR в качестве социального работника [...]
Beranbaum Menken LLP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a former Project OHR home attendant for minimum wage and overtime violations. Among other things, we allege that Project OHR’s policy of paying a flat rate (usually $18) for working overnight, rather than the minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, violates the law. Attorneys at [...]
Beranbaum Menken LLP is representing Emilie Morse, a former Inflight Supervisor with JetBlue Airways, in federal court in a disability discrimination lawsuit. JetBlue fired Morse in June 2006 pursuant to a policy of administratively terminating any employee who was out on leave for 52 weeks over a two-year period, regardless of whether the employee [...]