Empowering professional women through reproductive stages. Addressing work-life challenges, protections, and guidance.
What is an Arrest and Criminal Conviction History Discrimination?
New York State and New York City's human rights laws prohibit discrimination based on arrest history or criminal conviction history. And there's only two narrow exceptions to this prohibition.
Are You a Victim of Age Discrimination?
If you feel you're being managed out, treated differently, victimized because of your age, you may be a victim of age discrimination and before you're fired, it's best to take action.
How to Obtain Severance?
If you're being discriminated against, it may lead to a severance package since your company is not allowed to treat you worse because of protected civil rights complaint
Do You Have a Valid Claim for Wrongful Discharge?
Do you have a valid claim for wrongful discharge? Well, ask yourself these three questions for a start.
Am I Entitled to Severance When I'm Terminated From My Job?
There's no law requiring a company to pay you severance anywhere in the United States.
Your Divorce at Work: To Share or Not to Share?
The main reason to notify your employer about your divorce is to let them know how it might affect you personally and thus affect your work.
How should New York employees handle pay disparity issues at work?
Pay disparity or unequal pay is based on any protected status, such as race, color, creed, age, gender, gender identity, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. All of the protected statuses under the New York Human Rights laws are covered by the unequal pay law.
DON'T QUIT YOUR JOB. Call a lawyer first. Find out why.
Quitting your job is just giving up and doing your employer a favor, and most of the time when you quit you’ll also be ineligible to even collect unemployment benefits, never mind being able to take your employer to court, which is near impossible once you’ve voluntarily resigned.
E-book - New York Employee Rights FAQs Under Covid-19
The escalating coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has changed the life and work situations for millions of people throughout the US. In this time of frightening medical and economic crisis, Tuckner Sipser is especially concerned about protecting employee rights, we have prepared a set of FAQs to explain how federal, state, and local laws can protect your job and your income.
COVID-19, Your Pregnancy and the Workplace—Is My Severe Coronavirus Anxiety Covered?
Your pregnancy-related severe anxiety regarding giving birth in a hospital during this escalating and unprecedented American coronavirus pandemic is covered by the law.
What Should I Do if I’m Being Sexually Harassed at Work?
Learn what constitutes sexual harassment, what you should do to stop it, how to report it, and how to protect your rights in the event of backlash.
Hostile Work Environment: How to Protect Yourself?
If you identify that the hostility is arising because of something about you as a woman, or a person of color, or because of your age, or your disability, or some other protected status, then it is illegal.
What do you do if you are discriminated against at your workplace?
To treat you equally as a woman, to not permit you to be sexually harassed, to not permit you to be working in an environment that may be hostile to women in general, and you in particular; to ensure that your work environment for the nine months of your pregnancy is flexible, isn’t hostile; that you are able to come back from maternity leave that your employer must provide for you, and they must provide a place for you to express milk after you come back from your maternity leave.
5 ways to be discriminated against based on pregnancy
There are at least five principle ways that you can be discriminated against at work based on your pregnancy.
Your Rosa Parks Moment
If you're going to have your Rosa Parks moment, make it count. Make sure you document, document, document the complaint, and all follow up to the boss, to the HR department. Whatever happens, put it in writing. Hold their feet to the fire. Stand up for yourself. The Rosa Parks moment, Circa 2018 in the workplace.
Every case has a Statute of Limitations
Every case has a statute of limitations - the date by which it must be filed, or the chances are lost forever. In discrimination cases, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, retaliation, any kind of employment law case, a charge of discrimination must be filed with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission before you're allowed to file in court, and that charge of discrimination must be filed, within either 180 days of the last discriminatory act or 300 days of the last discriminatory act, depending on the state where you work. So for instance, in New York, that federal filing date with EEOC is 300 days from, if you were fired, that is likely the last discriminatory act.
NYTimes says Pregnancy Discrimination is rampant. What Rights Do You Have?
Your company must have a conversation with you about your needs when you're pregnant, and it has to “reasonably accommodate” you - that's the phrase for having a little flexibility when you are pregnant.
Lactation and Work: Your Rights
if your company has at least 50 employees, you are covered for up to a year after your baby is born, you are permitted, and they are required to create, make this space for you to express milk and continue lactating during working hours. Unpaid time, but they can't discriminate and they must permit you to do so. If your employer does not have 50 employees, approximately half of the states in the United States have their own lactation laws such as in New York, and Connecticut, where I practice law - both of those laws go farther than the federal law in protecting women who are lactating.
Pregnancy Discrimination: What to do?
Pregnancy discrimination in the workplace is illegal, but it happens all the time. So you need to be proactive. It’s not as if your company’s gonna grow a heart, all of a sudden.
Sex Discrimination Makes Me Mad, How About You?
If you are a woman being paid less than a man, or treated worse than you should be treated at work because you’re a woman, because you’re pregnant, because you had a baby, because you took some protected disability leave either while you were pregnant, or after your baby was born, and now you are being penalized for it, or punished for it, you have to oppose it.