FLORIDA – Jim Garrity succeeded in negotiating a substantial payout on behalf of a female banking employee who’d encountered severe obstacles placed in her way by male managers determined to prevent her from promoting any further. The settlement allowed her… Read More ›
FLORIDA – A franchisee of Dunkin’ (formerly known as Dunkin’ Donuts) violated federal law by intentionally altering an employee’s electronic time records to short his pay, and then firing him after he complained of the fraud, Jim Garrity charged in… Read More ›
Be sure, when taking time off from work under the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), that your activities aren’t inconsistent with the medical conditions you claimed required time off from work. Employers are aggressive about monitoring social media and… Read More ›
A jury deliberated for just 90 minutes today before awarding our client $430,000, in an identity theft and invasion of privacy case against her former employer. The Background Our client worked in a finance position. She held a specialized license… Read More ›
Today we filed suit against a power company on behalf of a client who alleges that he was fired after objecting to an extremely dangerous workplace hazard. He asserts that he was asked to work in a hole dug by… Read More ›
A settlement has been reached following a race-discrimination verdict in favor of Jim Garrity’s client The deal required the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) to pay a total of $692,000. It is a spectacular and just ending. To quote Jim’s… Read More ›
The South Walton Mosquito Control District has agreed to pay our client $150,000 to settle his whistleblower claim, based on his objections to actual or perceived violations of Florida law. Our client was a field technician for the district, which… Read More ›
A judge has now ordered our client’s former employer to reinstate her to her previous high-level job, after a jury in April 2021 found she was wrongfully terminated and awarded her $263,000 in damages. After a lengthy post-trial hearing between… Read More ›
Jim Garrity has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Education (FDOE), alleging that our client, an employee in the agency’s Office of Student Financial Assistance, was harassed and then fired, after she had been diagnosed with breast cancer… Read More ›
With recording devices becoming increasingly common (and concealable), more employees than ever are recording conversations with bosses and coworkers in order to capture misconduct that would otherwise be impossible to prove. The question we often get is, “Is it legal… Read More ›
Jim Garrity, Esq. - Employee Rights Lawyer 