Family Responsibility Discrimination

Family Responsibilities Should Not Cost You Your Job

Many employees have important responsibilities outside the workplace. Family obligations take up a great deal of time before and after working hours. Those requirements could also involve more time-consuming matters that may require extended time away from the workplace, especially in the case of the illness of a child, spouse or parent. Duty to family, however, should not result in an employer taking away a job.

At Outten & Golden LLP in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut, our attorneys protect the rights of employees discriminated against because of family responsibilities. Employees should not be forced to choose between their jobs or their families. Taking time off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) should not result in a demotion or loss of a job.

If you have experienced discrimination or wrongful termination as a result of taking a leave of absence for medical reasons or to care for a family member, we invite you to contact us to learn more about your rights and legal options.

Protection for Parents

Many companies portray themselves as family-oriented or family-friendly. When an employee takes time off for a maternity or paternity leave under the FMLA, however, that family orientation and friendliness may cease. There are laws to protect employees who put family first. We work to hold companies responsible if they violate these laws.

Evening the Odds

Outten & Golden LLP is one of the largest employee-side law firms in the nation. We are dedicated to working only for employees, leveling the playing field when employees are facing large corporations. We are powerful advocates for the rights of all employees to fair treatment.

A paternity or maternity leave under the FMLA should represent quality time spent with a newborn child. Time off to care for an elderly parent or ill spouse should be spent focused on recovery, not on anxiety brought about by fear of job loss. By law, neither of these situations should affect an employee’s job status. When demotion or termination results, we move swiftly to protect employees’ rights.

Contact Outten & Golden LLP

For more information or to schedule an appointment with an experienced lawyer regarding allegation of disability discrimination or retaliation following a parental leave of absence or another FMLA leave, in the workplace please contact us.

Practice group leadership: Gary Phelan, Allegra Fishel, and Ossai Miazad.