Long Island Employment Law Blog

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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.