• 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. 16, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Sexual Harassment

Two former employees filed a lawsuit against Zales, the jewelry retailer, claiming that they were sexually harassed by their supervisor. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiffs’ supervisor subjected them to 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: Apr. 11, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  FMLA,  Gender Discrimination
• Governor Cuomo,  New York City Laws,  New York State paid family leave

The New York State budget for 2016-2017, which was proposed by Governor Cuomo, included a Paid Family Leave (PFL) policy. PFL, when fully-enacted, will allow employees to take up to 12 Read More

• posted: Jan. 19, 2016
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Sexual Harassment,  Employment Retaliation,  Hostile Work Environment,  Gender Discrimination
• Angel Santiago,  Bridgeton Police Department,  Carolyn Dover,  Conscientious Employee Protection Act,  Cumberland County,  Deanne Laing,  Deena Bertolini,  Kelly Queen,  Luis Santiago,  unwanted physical contact,  Veronica Cheeseman

Twin Police Officers link to Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Suit New Jersey – Twin police officers, Angel and Luis Santiago, were named in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed in Cumberland County on 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: Dec. 01, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Fair Labor Standards Act

On November 10, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tyson Foods v. Bouaphakeo, which involves a group of pork-processing workers in Iowa who claimed the meatpacking giant Read More

• posted: Nov. 13, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Sexual Harassment

A recent New York court filing in Manhattan Supreme Court alleges that a female cook was sexually harassed and groped by the head chef at David Bouley’s restaurant in Tribeca Read More

• posted: Nov. 11, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Gender Discrimination

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has ruled that sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace is a form of illegal sex discrimination. According to the Commission, which passed the Read More

• posted: Nov. 03, 2015
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Gender Discrimination

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently found that New York City discriminated against women and minorities, paying them substantially less than their white male counterparts. The Commission issued its Read More