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I’m Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer here with Employment Law Reality Check. Media attention can be a bad thing for your employment case. Your employment matter is serious and do you want to risk making it a media circus? And how long will anybody possibly pay attention to a story even if the…

Hi I’m Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer here with Employment Law Reality Check. Have you been retaliated against as a healthcare whistleblower? Last year the law was improved quite a bit for healthcare workers. And that includes public and private. School employees who provide health services as well as public and private universities…

Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. I am getting many more calls from employees suffering with depression. And that’s to be expected, we’ve been dealing with COVID now for over a year. Does your employer need to know if you suffer from depression? No. But, if you’re going…

Hi I’m Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. If you’re going to be making a complaint to your employer about employment discrimination, make sure it’s specific. Too many times I here employees say I complained, it’s protected activity, and it’s not. If you just are in a hostile…

I’m Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. If an employer has a policy that consuming alcohol is part of the job is that good or bad? Well, let’s take three situations. First, a recovering alcoholic, or someone that abused drugs or alcohol, was addicted to drugs or alcohol…