Famighetti & Weinick, PLLC partner, Matt Weinick, received a 10.0 “Superb” rating from the attorney review website AVVO. 10.0 is the highest numerical rating on AVVO’s 1.0-10.0 scale. According to the AVVO website, attorney ratings are calculated “based on public data we’ve collected on each attorney and the information they have provided in their profile.…
Continue reading ›Famighetti & Weinick, PLLC partners, Peter Famighetti and Matt Weinick, were honored today by Super Lawyers magazine. The annual publication selected Famighetti and Weinick for inclusion in the magazine’s 2015 New York metro edition. Famighetti was selected for the Super Lawyers list in the category of plaintiff’s employment litigation. Less than 5% of the lawyers…
Continue reading ›On September 2, 2015, New York’s highest Federal Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an important decision which clarified several points of employment discrimination law, particularly for public employees. The Court’s decision in Vega v. Hempstead Union Free School District addresses (1) the timeliness of claims, (2) whether retaliation claims are actionable under…
Continue reading ›News from across the country today reminds us that in the year 2015, female employees still face challenges in traditionally male dominated workplaces. The Chicago Tribune posted a follow up story to a report it initially made in August. The Tribune reported about a female firefighter who alleged she faced a hostile work environment at…
Continue reading ›We are testing some of the new functionality of our new website www.linycemploymentlaw.com. Famighetti & Weinick, PLLC is an employment discrimination law firm in Melville, New York. We assist clients in many types of employment related disputes, such as discrimination, retaliation, hostile work environments, sexual harassment, and failure to pay proper wages and/overtime. If you…
Continue reading ›Another cautionary tale about the dangers of trying to pay employees improperly by incorrectly labeling them as independent contractors. http://www.ibtimes.com/feds-bust-alabama-trucking-firm-misclassifying-workers-independent-contractors-not-2060155
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Famighetti & Weinick, PLLC partner, Matt Weinick, has been selected as an instructor for a new course offering at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. According to the school’s website, the Foundational Lawyering Skills class will “provide students with a basic introduction to core lawyering skills essential to effective practice in…
Continue reading ›Federal Court Upholds $100,000 Jury Award to Lesbian Plaintiff Against United Parcel Service (UPS) – Art Leonard Observations. Learn More…
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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…
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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,…
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