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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…

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. 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…

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…

Hi I’m Jonas Urba, I’m a New York employment lawyer here with Employment Law Reality Check. Why is it so important to mitigate damages with employment discrimination claims? Mitigating damages means minimizing them, and it’s all about dollars. Employees have to keep looking for work. The most important thing in mitigating damages is, no matter…