What Types Of Workplace Discrimination Cases Does Your Firm Handle?

The most common type of discrimination claims that I handle involve retaliation for filing a worker’s comp injury. An employer cannot legally retaliate, discriminate, or punish employees simply because they have reported work injuries. Also, since these clients are injured or disabled, these cases can potentially involve state and federal laws for disability discrimination, generically referred to as ADA (Americans with Disabilities) claims.

How Do You Prove A Discrimination Case In Court?

It is very hard to prove any type of case where you have one person’s word against another’s. Sometimes, there are emails or text messages. Preservation of this evidence is key. Co-workers are often reluctant to get involved. Many larger employers have developed corporate handbooks with formal complaint processes. Those can be important because, in many cases, when employees use this process, nothing ever happens. All the records with respect to the reporting the injury are ignored and that can be very important evidence. These policies on complaints can work both in our favor and against us, depending on whether my client has undertaken the formal process or not. Some companies don’t even have any such handbooks or procedures.

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