You Have the Right to Assert Your Rights
There are many workers out there who have simply asserted their rights at work, only to find themselves in an increasingly hostile work environment. The rights asserted may involve requests for maternity leave or reasonable disability accommodations. Sometimes the triggering event involves a "whistleblower" informing the authorities regarding illegal workplace activities, or an employee complaining to the employer regarding what the employee reasonably believes to be discrimination or harassment. It may be illegal for the employer to retaliate against the employee for taking these actions.
As an employee rights attorney in San Francisco, California and the greater Bay Area for nearly 15 years, I know that you need a lawyer who is focused and dedicated to protecting your rights in the workplace. Contact me at the Law Office of Alan Adelman so that I can help make sure you do not forfeit your rights before you have a chance to assert them.
Your employer may not require you to forfeit your legal rights in order to keep your job. Contact a knowledgeable attorney dedicated to protecting your rights and interests.
Forms and Reasons for Workplace Retaliation
Workplace retaliation can come in a variety of forms. An employer may create a hostile work environment. The employer may subject an employee to a wrongful termination.
It is unlawful for an employer to retaliate against an employee under many circumstances, including:
- Whistleblower retaliation: an employee blows the whistle, informing the authorities of employer conduct which the employee reasonably believes to be illegal.
- Reasonable disability accommodation requests: An employee requests reasonable accommodations for a disability or requests a medical leave for an illness.
- Opposing conduct that the employee reasonably believes to be discriminatory, harassing or retaliatory.
Your Workplace Retaliation Claim
If you have made a complaint regarding what you reasonably believe to be sexual harassment, discrimination, or unpaid wages, and your employer has treated you unfairly because of that claim, you may be entitled to recover for the retaliation even if the underlying claim is unsubstantiated, as long as the original claim was based on a reasonable belief of mistreatment or discrimination by the employer.
If you think your employer is retaliating against you for asserting your rights or benefits in the workplace, call my Bay Area office at 415-956-1360 or contact me online to see whether you have an employer retaliation claim.
