terailaw.com Blog http://terailaw.com/blog useful information Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:19:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Discrimination law suit? Check this site http://terailaw.com/blog/2010/07/17/discrimination-law-suit-check-this-site/ http://terailaw.com/blog/2010/07/17/discrimination-law-suit-check-this-site/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:02:21 +0000 Administrator http://terailaw.com/blog/?p=20 I have been writing a newspaper column on employment laws for years.
Today, I just wrote about how to file an employment discrimination charge that is extremely complicated.
From one fact, you may have federal, state and local government (e.g., city) charges. For federal charges, you must first file a complaint to Equal Employment Opportunity Office before going to court. They cross file state and local government charges, and start investigation on both charges, but if it is about equal pay, you do not have to go to EEOC, etc., etc….
Hey, what am I gonna do?
Then, try this online assessment system by EEOC.

https://egov.eeoc.gov/eas/

It will kindly tell you WHICH EEOC office you should turn to. But it’s a good start.

Oops. I usually represent employers. But I have experiences to sit in intake meetings of plaintiff side litigation firms that were truly chilling as an employer myself. Compliance is extremely important. You could lose everything. But you don’t have money to hire an attorney? Good news is that not all employers are covered by federal laws, but generally ones that have more than 15 employees. (But be alert! Your state and local government may have more stringent laws. So it’s always best to check with a live attorney.)

EEOC also publishes for employers:

http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/index.cfm

Excited to see how many landmines there are?
Maybe it is not a bad idea to invest one hour of your precious time to review these pages. :-)

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Remember, this is not legal advice, just a generalized outline of laws.

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