Are You the Victim of Workplace Discrimination?
Discrimination Law Attorneys - New York and New Jersey
The employment discrimination attorneys at Resnick & Nirenberg provide legal representation to employees who have experienced unlawful discrimination in the workplace.
Discrimination is only actionable if it is based on a legally protected category, such as your race, age, gender, pregnancy, mental or physical disability, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or military/veteran status. As a result, you may have a discrimination claim if you experienced an adverse employment action due to your membership in a legally protected, such as:
- You were fired, laid off, or otherwise wrongfully discharged;
- Your position was eliminated in a reduction in force;
- You were denied a promotion;
- You were not hired;
- You are underpaid in comparison to your peers;
- You were harassed;
- You were forced to resign (also referred to as a "constructive discharge");
- Your were denied a reasonable accommodation for a mental or physical disability; or
- You experienced another adverse employment action due to your membership in a legally protected group.
Employers are not legally required to act fairly to their employees. For example, it is not necessarily unlawful for an employer to makes an employment decision based on favoritism, nepotism, friendship, or office politics. Unfair treatment is only actionable discrimination if it is due to your race, age, gender, pregnancy, mental or physical disability, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or membership in another legally protected class.
If you have been the victim of race discrimination, age discrimination, disability discrimination, gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, religious discrimination, or sexual orientation discrimination in either New York or New Jersey, contact an employment discrimination attorney at Resnick & Nirenberg.
