• posted: Feb. 18, 2014
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law
• Employment Law

New York State law provides protection to people who are discriminated against because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation. The New York Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA) protects a transgender Read More

• posted: Jan. 31, 2014
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Retaliation
• Employment Law,  Employment Retaliation

Your supervisor is constantly criticizing your work and telling you that women are useless in the workplace. You have left his office in tears on many occasions and would love Read More

• posted: Jan. 14, 2014
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Uncategorized

On more than 50 occasions over a period of several years, a Chrysler employee of Cuban-Jewish descent was the target of hostile and belligerent, anti-Semitic, anti-Cuban and homophobic attacks consisting Read More

• posted: Dec. 05, 2013
• Zafer Akin, Esq.
• Employment Law,  Fair Labor Standards Act,  Sexual Harassment
• Fair Labor Standards Act,  New York City Employment Lawyer,  Sexual Harassment

The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and NYLL requires employers to pay overtime to all employees that work more than 40 hours in a 7 day work week, unless the Read More