Whistleblower & Employer Retaliation Labor & Employment Lawyers
We will educate you about your whistleblowing rights at work and create a comprehensive legal strategy and plan to address your whistleblowing or retaliation legal needs. We guarantee a relationship of ongoing trust, transparency, and communication in dealing with your whistleblowing retaliation legal issues.
Workplace Whistleblowers
Employees, workers, and freelancers who are whistleblowers having exposed, or who are about to expose, unethical or illegal behavior at the workplace. Often workers not familiar with the various Laws that protect them from retaliation if they do make a whistleblower complaint.
Employer Retaliation
If you complained about your employer breaking the law and you were fired, you might be a victim of retaliation. If you were fired, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed or otherwise discriminated against after you tried to stand up for your rights in the workplace, We can help you.
Whistleblower Lawyers NY
Our lawyers advise workers regarding what some of the legal implications and options in Whistle- blowing about illegal or unethical management goals in the workplace. Find out more about what you need to consider if you are thinking of whistleblowing.
“El-Hag helped me recover $100,000 in unpaid overtime because the time spent traveling was not paid”
WHY CHOOSE US
NY Labor & Employment Lawyers
- We only represent employees and workers. We do not represent businesses.
- Our NY Whistleblower Retaliation Law Firm Will Fight To Protect You and Get the Compensation You Deserve
- Get a Free Confidential Consultation
- No Upfront Fees Or Retainers – We Get Paid Only If You Get Paid
- 8 In 10 Clients Recover Tens Of Thousands And 2 In 10 Can Recover Life Changing Amounts.
WHISTLE-BLOWING & RETALIATION LAWSUITS
We’ve helped employees just like you recover millions in damages. We can help you too!
Because of this, our goal as a whistleblower labor and employment law firm, our goal is to educate and empower every working person in Westchester County New York, New York City, and the surrounding areas to learn their whistleblower rights and protection from retaliation. We will educate you about your whistleblowing rights at work and create a comprehensive legal strategy and plan to address your whistleblowing or retaliation legal needs. We guarantee a relationship of ongoing trust, transparency, and communication in dealing with your whistleblowing retaliation legal issues. If you feel you are being retaliated against in the workplace because of whistleblowing, or otherwise, treated unfairly in the workplace, or wrongly terminated, call El-Hag & Associates, PC- a Westchester New York labor & employment law firm and we will fight for you.
Health Care Worker Protection. New York Labor Law Section 741 specifically protects healthcare workers who lodge complaints against their employer for the mistreatment of patients.
Non Health Care Worker Protection. New York Labor Law Section 740 protects non-healthcare workers who lodge complaints against their employer.
Federal Law. Under the Federal Law, there are numerous laws and regulations under which you have protections for reporting your employer. A good resource to provide you with an overview can be found here- https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42727.pdf
If you believe you were a victim of retaliation by your employer
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What is Retaliation?
Retaliation is when your employer fires, demotes, suspends, threatens, harasses or otherwise discriminates against you because you engaged in some form of protected activity. Many of the employment laws that protect employees have specific provisions that protect employees from employer retaliation. For example:
Unpaid wage & overtime lawsuits.
Under both the Federal & New York State law, it is unlawful for your employer to terminate you because you complained about not being paid correctly. In fact, even if you were being paid correctly but you reasonably believed that you were not being paid correctly, and you complained to your employer, then you are protected by the retaliation protections of the wage and hour laws.
Discrimination.
Under both the Federal and New York State discrimination laws, it is unlawful for your employer to terminate you because you complained about discrimination in the workplace or because you filed a charge of discrimination.
Union formation.
Under the National Labor Relations Act, it is unlawful for your employer to retaliate against you for engaging in protected concerted activity. The National Labor Relations Board has exclusive jurisdiction over prosecuting unfair labor practice charges, which is what a retaliation charge would constitute.
Family and Medical Leave Act.
Under the Family & Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), you are protected from retaliation for your utilization of the FMLA protections, for lodging a complaint about FMLA violations, or if you are complaining about your coworkers’ rights being violated under the FMLA.
Our NY Whistleblower Retaliation Law Firm Will Fight To Protect You and Get the Compensation You Deserve
If you are a whistleblower and believe your employer is retaliating against you or you have been terminated despite laws designed to protect you our whistleblower retaliation lawyers can help you recover what is rightfully yours.
- No upfront fees or retainers – we get paid only if YOU get paid
- You could get DOUBLE your unpaid wages, including overtime, in penalties and damages
- 8 in 10 clients recover tens of thousands, and 2 in 10 can recover life changing amounts.
- Generally takes 4 – 9 months from start to money-in-your-pocket
- Our whistleblower lawyers will know how to best collect evidence to prove your case and protect you legally from retaliation by your employer
- Our experienced retaliation attorneys can negotiate on your behalf to get you the best possible outcome to your employment situation, including getting any money owed to you by your employer
- Our whistleblower retaliation lawyers can help you file a claim with the Department of Labor or take your case to court. (Which is unnecessary in most cases)
- Protection from revenge – your boss can’t fire you, change your hours or mess with your work environment due to your whistleblower claim.
- You can recover from any company you worked for in the past six years for unpaid overtime
- We’ll do all the hard work to get you your Money. You just need to give us the details. You (usually) won’t even have to show up
- You can get your job back or front pay instead of getting your job back so you have money in your pocket while you look for another job.
- Hiring our experienced NY whistleblower retaliation law firm gives you the best chance of recovering the wages and additional sums of money that may be due to but Withheld from you in retaliation for whistleblowing.
Case Results
James
recovered $160,000 in severance pay and left work on his own terms.
Katrina
recovered $60,000 when her employer denied her leave for her disabled child (3 years pay)!
Tony
recovered $50,000 for losing his job after his boss made racists comments!
Monica
recovered $25,000 in unpaid overtime because her boss incorrectly treated her as not entitled to overtime under the law as a salaried office worker.
Manuel
recovered $45,000 as a deli worker because he worked more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay. The boss paid him off the books without paying him any overtime and we recovered an extra $10,000 in penalties.
Were your wages stolen
Here are the most common tricks business owners use to steal employee wages:
- Calling you an independent contractor when you are not an independent contractor.
- Telling you that you are not entitled to overtime pay when you work over 40 hours in a workweek.
- Paying by day or by the project instead of by the hour.
- Forcing you to work outside standard hours without counting the hours worked.
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Not paying tipped workers an hourly wage in addition to tips.
- Deducting time from your pay like breaks and lunch periods when you did not take a break or lunch period.
How we help you recover your
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How We Help You Recover Any Wages Unjustly Held in Retaliation by Your Employer and Other Compensation You May Be Entitled in Just Four -9 Months in Just Four 4 -9 Months
- You can sue any company you worked for in the past six years. It does not have to be a company at which you are currently working.
- Attorney-Client Privilege- We CANNOT tell anyone about your case unless you ask us to. Your call is 100% confidential and protected by the attorney-client privilege.
- The law protects you. The law prevents retaliation. You can collect lost wages and benefits, penalties, demand your job back, and even demand front pay (money to cover you for the time it would take to find new work).
- Attack only when you’re comfortable. We only move forward when you are ready. There is no pressure to start. You can have your free wage evaluation, come up with a strategy, collect evidence, and begin when you are ready.
Why you should not wait to take action
There are many reasons why you need to act fast before you lose your chance to collect your money.
- The Company can go out of business.
- You can run out of time to bring a lawsuit
- The company can be sold or transferred.
- Someone else could sue and complicate your chance of collecting your wages
- The company could file for bankruptcy
- The owner could die
Client Reviews
Why clients prefer El-Hag Law
Millions in unpaid wages on behalf of individual clients
Although we have litigated class action lawsuits, nothing makes us happier than handing an individual a check for tens of thousands of dollars. It’s a life-changing experience for most of our clients. That is why we focus on helping the most underserved people and take on the most challenging to win cases. We know how to win these cases and are not afraid to fight on our clients' behalf.
Experience representing employees on an individual or class action basis
Did you know that you could end up receiving less as being part of a class-action lawsuit instead of litigating your case individually? We have handled numerous cases where there are multiple clients, and we know when it would benefit our clients to be part of a class action or not. Generally, class actions benefit the lawyers more than the clients, and we will never put our interest before yours. We always keep our current clients' interests at the forefront of our decisions. Because we have experience handling class action lawsuits and individual lawsuits, we can help you make the right decision for your case.
Will take your case to trial if necessary
The truth is that most lawsuits settle. Many attorneys have no experience going to trial. However, we will. And because we will bring it to trial, we can get better settlements for our clients because other firms know we will go the distance.
Your case is handled by the same person from start to finish
How would you like it if the person who handles your trial is not the person who had all the experience of putting your case together from the beginning? Some law firms will have different people working on different parts of the case to make the firm more efficient. However, in the process, things can fall through the cracks. Not with us. One person handles your case from start to finish, so the representative is personally familiar with all people and facts.
There is an art to winning a lawsuit. How can a person know how a witness will behave at trial if they had no interaction with the witness before the trial date? It's impossible to be effective. These are the kinds of things most people do not know to ask when they are evaluating lawyers. But because we need to win your case to get paid, we make sure that your case does not fall through the cracks.
We care about you and your case
We don't nickel and dime clients for 1-minute phone calls. We put in the time to build relationships and educate our clients. We know this is a scary process for most people. Every client who has walked through our door has never been in a lawsuit before. We want to make sure you are comfortable and educated on what is going on with your case. We provide you with the right information to make educated decisions about your case. It takes time to build strong relationships, and we are happy to put in the time for you.
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