Jack B. Tuckner, Esq.

Partner / Employment Law

Pregnancy Discrimination / Sex Discrimination / Menopause

Practices

Overview

With over 20 years of experience as a civil rights attorney, Jack Tuckner has represented clients in New York City and the surrounding areas, founding Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, a progressive NYC law firm dedicated to the empowerment of women in the workplace.

Jack Tuckner is the co-founding partner of Tuckner, Sipser, Weinstock & Sipser, LLP, with offices in Manhattan and Poughkeepsie, New York. Mr. Tuckner represents employees contending with illegal and wrongful discharges from employment across New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Through his firm, perhaps the only law firm in the nation concentrating its practice on workplace gender rights, his practice is focused on helping working women assert their menopause rights, combat sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and other discrimination and illegal treatment faced by women, including illegal pay disparity, gender discrimination, maternity leave matters, unlawful retaliation, and wrongful termination.

As a civil rights lawyer, Mr. Tuckner champions the rights of working women to work in environments free from unwelcome sexualization, gender pay inequality and pregnancy discrimination. Whether his clients work for small local businesses or transnational corporations, he ensures they are treated with respect and equality. He is recognized for his quality legal services and holds a “Superb” rating on Avvo.

As a staunch ally and supporter of women’s rights in and outside of the workplace, Mr. Tuckner maintains an active involvement with a variety of organizations, including the National Employment Lawyers Association, the New York Women's Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers, 9to5 (National Association of Working Women), and the National Lawyers Guild.

Experience

Menopause Rights, Pregnancy Discrimination, and Sexual Harassment Attorney

For more than 25 years my practice has been dedicated to helping women in the workforce get justice when they are treated unfairly and subjected to illegal workplace practices. A significant portion of my practice is focused on pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment. I only represent clients – both women and men – in other areas, including:

  • Age Discrimination

  • Disability Discrimination

  • Equal Pay

  • Pregnancy Discrimination

  • Race and Color Discrimination

  • Sex and Gender Discrimination

  • Sexual Harassment

Our Services

  • Many women never mention menopause while at work, even if they're having these embarrassing and significant symptoms, they don't reveal these symptoms because they don't want to be viewed as less competent, and discussing menopause may even threaten their job security, while greater efforts need to be made to raise awareness about menopause and to provide education, support and protection to women who are navigating menopause at work.


  • Under the federal law known as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, your pregnancy-related condition may be considered a temporary disability, which may include chronic morning sickness, doctor-ordered bed rest, childbirth and the recovery from it, and any other related medical condition. So when you’re pregnant, your employer must provide you with the same treatment and benefits that it gives to employees with other temporary disabilities.

  • It is wrong – and illegal – under both New York and federal law to discriminate against an employee based upon sex or gender identification. This means that with respect to all important job aspects – such as promotions – an employer cannot treat one person differently than others based upon gender. If you feel that an uncomfortable workplace situation or severe hostility would not have happened to you if you were a man, then you’re experiencing sex discrimination, and it’s illegal.

  • Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination in the workplace, though it’s sometimes referred to as gender discrimination in some city or state anti-discrimination laws. Sexual harassment is unwanted behavior in the workplace that happens to you because of your sex, in other words, because of who you are as woman, or much less frequently, because of who you are as a man. In other words, if you weren’t a woman, your boss would not have subjected you to unwelcome sexual advances.