Long Island Employment Law Blog

Federal Court Upholds $100,000 Jury Award to Lesbian Plaintiff Against United Parcel Service (UPS) – Art Leonard Observations. Learn More…

Government employees have important protections generally not available to private sector employees. If you work for a town, village, county, library, or school district, you are probably a government employee. Public employees may have rights with the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) or rights under the Constitution. Additionally, public employees may be entitled to a…

Governments such as towns, villages, counties and states are bound by the Constitution. If a government has violated a person’s Constitutional rights, that may be grounds for a lawsuit. Famighetti & Weinick is experienced in First Amendment cases such as free speech and association, and also other Constitutional cases, such as false arrest, false imprisonment,…

At Famighetti & Weinick, we hear time and again from employers’ attorneys that allegations that a defendant made just one or two comments with a discriminatory undertone are nothing more than “stray remarks” which cannot support a basis for a discrimination claim. Although New York’s highest Federal Court addressed this issue in 2007 and rejected…

Northjersey.com is reporting about New Jersey teachers finding themselves in trouble for using facebook on their own time. The story serves as another reminder that although public employees, such as teachers, enjoy some First Amendment protections, there are limits to those protections. The whole story can be read here.

On June 1, 2015, the Supreme Court decided EEOC v. Abercrombie & FItch Stores, Inc. The case posed to the Court the question of whether an employee must inform the employer of his need for a religious accommodation in order to receive the protections of Title VII’s anti-religious discrimination provision. Writing for the Court, Justice…

Court sides with Muslim woman in workplace discrimination case. Learn More…

4 ways the new overtime rules may affect your paycheck. Learn More…

‘Pregnant Then Screwed’: Project Reveals Epidemic of Pregnancy Discrimination In The Workplace » Learn More…

Federal discrimination law is well settled that individuals who complain about discrimination, whether orally or in writing and whether internally or to an administrative agency or court, are protected by the anti-retaliation provisions of the those laws. At least in New York, the law was less certain about whether employees who complain orally and internally…