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5 Fast Facts About Employers Who Interfere With Your FMLA Rights

By Jim Garrity on October 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

The FMLA requires that your employer return you to the same or a virtually identical position upon your return from medical leave. If your job upon your return is worse in noticeable ways, your employer has likely interfered with your… Read More ›

“Employment At Will” Doesn’t Mean “No Right to Fight Back”

By Jim Garrity on September 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

The laws that protect you as a job seeker or employer apply whether you work in an “at will” state or not. Many employers tell applicants or employees that they can’t fight back against wrongful treatment because “It’s an… Read More ›

Is Your Boss Using Fake Devices (Like This “USB Drive”) To Record You?

By Jim Garrity on September 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

For years I’ve provided legal advice to employees about whether and when they can record workplace conversations with their bosses. Increasingly, though, I am seeing situations where it is the supervisors doing the recording. And if your boss is recording you, you… Read More ›

How Do Employers Cheat You On Payday? Let Us Count The Ways.

By Jim Garrity on August 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

What’s the most common violation of employee rights we see on a day-to-day basis? Without question, it’s the failure of employers to properly pay employees. This is true whether the employer is a mom-and-pop corner store or one of the… Read More ›

Lawsuit: Woman Fired for Absences Relating To Fall, Death of Her 88-Year Old Mother

By Jim Garrity on July 27, 2018 • ( 0 )

I filed suit this week on behalf of a kind, gentle soul of a woman who was shockingly fired just weeks after her 88-year old mother was taken off life support and passed, with my client and her sister at… Read More ›

Nurses’ Rights 101: 7 Laws Protecting Your Rights (and Career)

By Jim Garrity on July 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

Jim Garrity is an employee rights lawyer. He doesn’t help employers, ever. Nor does he fracture his work into multiple practice areas. It’s 100% employees’ rights, 24/7/365, for employees only. More about his incredible background here. He’s represented many… Read More ›

The Facts About Pregnancy Discrimination (Before, During and After)

By Jim Garrity on July 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

Pregnancy discrimination remains widespread and shows up in many different ways: A refusal to hire or promote you while you’re pregnant. Harassing you about maternity or pregnancy-related medical visits or leave. Cutting your hours, or taking you off the schedule… Read More ›

Jim Garrity, Esq. – Employee Rights Lawyer