Category: Blog
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Injured On-the-Job Employee not always Protected from Job Loss. But a Job Loss after Injury Should have Nothing to do with Injury in New York.
I’m Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. Talking about workers compensation retaliation or discrimination and reorganization. Many companies are reorganizing, they’re laying off, they’re restructuring right now. And employees who get injured sometimes wind up as part of that reorganization plan. Is that retaliation? Is it retaliation for…
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New York Employment Lawyer Jonas Urba Discusses Wrongful Termination.
Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. Do I have a case for employment discrimination? This question comes up all of the time. Ask yourself three questions. First, were you illegally fired and not just wrongfully fired? Next, what law was broken? Often times it’s either the Americans with…
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Restrictive Covenants Protect not just Confidential Information but Unfair Competition Against Businesses and Relationships.
Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. Restrictive covenants and noncompetition agreements are different but they share similarities. Those similarities often rely on the relationships that you have developed while employed. If your employer is paying for you to meet contacts, business prospects, future interests which an employer may…
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Employment discrimination complaints get better or worse
Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. “My employment discrimination case is a slam dunk.” The person who says this is usually not the one who has the best employment discrimination case. The employees who call me and say “I’m not sure if I was discriminated against” are often…
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Analyzing Employer Defenses is Key for Employment Discrimination but as Important is how Parties Handle Employment Litigation Stress.
Jonas Urba, a New York employment lawyer, here with Employment Law Reality Check. Last week’s video discussed how we represent employees who we may never meet in person. How is that even done? Once we have reviewed some documents and discussed the issues with a potential client we need to address what an employer’s defenses…