• 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: 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: Apr. 30, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Employee Rights,  Racial Discrimination,  Gender Discrimination
• Donald Trump,  Hillary Clinton,  NBC News SurveyMonkey,  woman card

Hillary Clinton promotes the Woman Card Donald Trump recently gave a speech that included degrading remarks against his competitor’s, Hillary Clinton, presidential campaign. Trump alleged that Hillary’s primary focus in her Read More

• posted: Apr. 15, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Employment Retaliation,  Employee Rights,  Racial Discrimination
• Curtis Weathers,  David Young,  Donald Ragland,  Glenn Jackson,  harassment,  Jeffrey Goree,  John Hughes,  Lamont Brown,  UPS,  William Barber

Several Black Men sued UPS for Hostile Work Environment Exposure A total of 8 black UPS employees filed a race discrimination lawsuit in 2014 in Fayette Circuit Court against UPS located Read More

• posted: Dec. 03, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Employee Rights,  Racial Discrimination
• Racial Discrimination

An Illinois jury recently awarded $240,000 to a pair of Muslim men who believed they were terminated from their position of employment with a trucking company after both men refused Read More

• posted: Apr. 09, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Racial Discrimination

The Sheet Metal Worker’s International Association, a trade union for metal workers who perform architectural work with sheet metal, has agreed to pay over $12 million to a group of Read More