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    If you were fired from your job, had your pay cut, or were transferred, that is usually allowed – if your employer had a good reason.  However, employers who do these things without a good reason and instead do so as discrimination, retaliation, or some other kind of employment law violation open themselves up to lawsuits.

    Our attorneys can help you vindicate your rights and hold your employer responsible for their illegal motives behind these kinds of decisions, getting you compensation for your lost earnings and other damages related to these kinds of illegal employment practices.

    Call our employment attorneys at Leeson & Leeson today at (610) 890-6332 for a free evaluation of your potential case.

    How Can an Employment Lawyer Help with My Pottsville, PA Case?

    Our attorneys have the experience and training to investigate your case, bring a claim against your employer, go through whatever administrative agency steps are necessary, and ultimately seek damages for you in your case.  We understand the various laws in place to protect your rights, we know where to look for evidence of violations, we can use the courts to our advantage to subpoena evidence from your employer, and we can ultimately help you understand how much you should be entitled to in damages for your claim.

    There are many kinds of adverse employment actions, and you could have been subjected to them based on all kinds of discriminatory practices, harassment, retaliation, or other employment law violations.  Our employment attorneys can root out these issues, help protect your rights as you file your claim, fight against further ongoing retaliation, and fight for the damages you deserve for what happened to you.

    Types of Employment Law Cases Our Pottsville Lawyers Handle

    As mentioned, there are varied different types of cases that can be brought under the umbrella of “employment law” cases:

    Wrongful Termination

    Being fired for an illegal or discriminatory reason is one of the most clearly wrong things that can happen in the workplace, and workers often see this as the most obvious employment law case that they might reach out to our attorneys about.  We can help fight for damages, including punitive damages, in these kinds of cases.

    Discrimination

    Discrimination occurs against many different “protected classes” of people from race and color discrimination to sex, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination to disability, age, and pregnancy discrimination.  If you faced any kind of categorically disparate impact because of your employer’s otherwise “neutral” policies or if you faced adverse employment actions at work because of discrimination, our lawyers can help.

    Harassment (Sexual and Other)

    Sexual harassment is another common employment law issue that workers think of because there is so much training and cultural awareness of this problem.  Our attorneys can help if you were the victim of quid pro quo sexual harassment or hostile workplace sexual harassment.  In addition, we can help with other kinds of non-sexual harassment cases, including workplace bullying or harassment based on race, sex, gender, religion, or other issues.

    Retaliation

    Often, workers who stand up and advocate for themselves or their rights in these other areas discussed above end up facing retaliation from their employers.  Much of this retaliation is illegal and could constitute further employment law violations.  While pursuing your claim, our lawyers can also document new instances of retaliation and help you file claims for those wrongs as well.

    Whistleblower Protections

    Often, retaliation occurs in connection with an employee who blew the whistle on unfair labor practices, illegal activity, or harassment/discrimination that they witnessed or were victims of.  In many of these cases, whistleblower protections provide more robust protections for workers beyond what applies to general retaliation cases.  For whistleblower protections to apply, you usually have to make your report under strict procedures, so consider taking your case to our attorneys before blowing the whistle to help get these protections to apply.

    Damages for Victims of Workplace Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and More

    When assessing the damages in your case, there are three main areas of damages we can usually try to claim:

    Economic Damages

    Economic damages pay you back for the economic harm you faced because of adverse employment decisions.  If you were docked pay, the difference in wages would be economic damages, as would any pay you missed out on if you were illegally fired.  Even if you were illegally passed up for a job you never had, the wages you missed out on would be economic damages, too.

    In addition, you might have lost benefits, which can be reduced to a monetary value.  You may have also had to pick up additional expenses, such as the cost of job search programs to find replacement work or the increased cost of seeking health insurance on your own instead of through your employer.  These incidental costs are also economic damages you can claim in your case.

    Non-Economic Damages

    Non-economic damages are often lumped together as “pain and suffering” damages, but employment law cases rarely involve physical pain.  Instead, we focus on the mental and emotional aspects of these kinds of damages – money to pay you back for the negative experiences you faced because of these work issues.

    For example, these damages can cover the stress of being called into a meeting and excoriated after reporting sexual harassment or the repulsion and embarrassment of being a victim of workplace sexual harassment/discrimination in the first place.  Additionally, many cases involve despair, hopelessness, and other emotional and mental reactions to these issues, which can be accounted for in your damages, too.

    Punitive Damages

    When employers break the law, you can often claim additional damages not to reimburse you for your experiences and expenses but to punish the employer for what they did.  The law often permits treble damages (i.e., triple the value of your other damages) and other punitive damages for egregious employment law cases, though some caps on these values may apply under certain laws.

    Call Our Employment Law Attorneys in Pottsville, PA Today

    If your employer took illegal action against you at work and you need help, reach out to our employment attorneys at Leeson & Leeson at (610) 890-6332 for a free case assessment today.