• posted: Jun. 12, 2023
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act,  Uncategorized,  Minimum Wage / Overtime,  Employee Rights

Currently the minimum wage in New York City, Long island and Westchester is $15.00 per hour while it is $14.20 per hour for the remainder of New York State) On May Read More

• posted: May 16, 2017
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Pregnancy Discrimination
• Otisha Woolbright,  PDA,  Pregnancy Discrimination,  Pregnancy Discrimination Act,  Randy Hargrove,  Talisa Borders,  Walmart

Walmart to answer pregnancy discrimination suit file by two employees. Recently two Walmart employees, Talisa Borders and Otisha Woolbright, filed a lawsuit in Illinois Federal Court, accusing the conglomerate retailer of Read More

• posted: Feb. 02, 2017
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Racial Discrimination
• African American,  Akin Law Group,  employment discrimination lawyer,  Federal Contract Compliance Programs,  Hispanic workers,  New York City Race Discrimination Lawyer,  NYCHRL,  NYSHRL,  OFCCP

This past year, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Baltimore staffing agency (WMS) that provides asbestos removal and demolition workers for federal contractors. At the Read More

• posted: Aug. 28, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Employment Retaliation,  Employee Rights,  Hostile Work Environment,  Racial Discrimination
• Civil Rights Act of 1964,  EEOCX Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizing Inc.,  frontier hot dip galvanizing inc,  race discrimination,  racial comments,  Title VII,  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,  workplace misconduct,  workplace retaliation

Endless Racial Remarks reported to the EEOC Buffalo, NY – Frontier Hot-Dip Galvanizind a lawsuit alleging a hostile work environment on the basis of race. The metal coating company denies the Read More

• posted: Aug. 07, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Employee Rights,  Disability Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination,  Age Discrimination
• age discrimination,  disabi,  gender discrimination,  New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act,  New Jersey Employment Law Attorney,  New Jersey Mayor Jimmy Davis,  Patrick Leonard,  whistleblowing

City Worker fights for Fair Wages New Jersey – A male employee, Patrick “PJ” Leonard, working for the city of Bayonne, NJ has filed a lawsuit in Hudson County Superior Court Read More

• posted: Aug. 04, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Sexual Harassment,  Employee Rights
• EEOC,  New York City Human Rights Law,  Red Lobster,  sexual comments

Red Lobster Restaurants LLC has agreed to pay $160,000 and provide a significant amount of equitable relief to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Read More

• posted: Aug. 03, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Sexual Harassment,  Employee Rights
• Pentagon data,  sexual assault,  unwelcome sexual conduct

The Pentagon recently reported that there were an estimated 20,300 instances of unwelcome sexual conduct among 1.3 million active service members in 2014. Among these instances, 65% occurred on a Read More

• posted: Jun. 17, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Hostile Work Environment,  Racial Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination
• equal pay,  family caregiver discrimination,  gender equality,  gender identity,  Patricia A. Shiu,  sex discrimination,  sex stereotyping,  U.S. Department of Labor

Women make up over 50 percent of the population in the United States and are a significant part of the workforce. Yet, discrimination based on gender (sex discrimination) remains prevalent. Read More

• posted: Jun. 15, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Hostile Work Environment,  Racial Discrimination
• equal pay,  family caregiver discrimination,  gender equality,  gender identity,  Patricia A. Shiu,  sex discrimination,  sex stereotyping,  U.S. Department of Labor

For a very long time, the 4th Circuit had set a very high standard holding that a hostile work environment claim cannot survive unless it was pervasive and on-going. This Read More

• posted: Jun. 09, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Sexual Harassment,  Disability Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination,  Age Discrimination
• alienage,  caregiver,  citizenship status,  disability,  employment discrimination,  marital status,  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio,  partnership status,  sexual orientation

On January 5, 2016, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law legislation prohibiting employment discrimination based on an individual’s actual or perceived status as a caregiver. A “caregiver” Read More