What’s going on in Maryland? From Salisbury to Hagerstown, from Baltimore to Columbia, I have been receiving more and more telephone calls and emails from employees, often executives or managers, who are being fired or laid off from their jobs. This is not surprising in light of the growing weakness…
Sometimes I’ll get a call from somebody from Baltimore or Westminster or Easton telling me that they have a great age discrimination case, but those promises rarely come true. Yesterday, I interviewed a gentleman who really did have what appears to be a strong age discrimination case. What made it…
With the economy struggling, especially in Western Maryland, the Eastern Shore and in Baltimore, corporate managers and executives are increasingly facing lay-offs and firings. In many circumstances, employers want to protect themselves against any possible future lawsuit, so they offer severance agreements to employees in return for a release and…
The biggest problem that I encounter when potential clients contact me about providing legal advice relating to an unemployment appeal is that people wait too long to contact an attorney. Instead of calling an attorney, such as myself, to assist them when they are initially denied unemployment benefits, or when…
I am frequently asked questions about sexual harassment, wrongful termination, employment discrimination and failure to pay overtime and wages, but I have had several people contact me in the past few days to ask me questions about termination vs. resignation. This is always a delicate area, because there are no…
Many people assume that sexual harassment is an aberration, that in 2008, employees rarely are subjected to such improper conduct in the workplace except in isolated cases. Well, my experience with sexual harassment cases suggests that, unfortunately, sexual harassment is alive and well in Baltimore City and County, in Howard…
As a Maryland employment attorney based in Baltimore County, I know that one of the most common telephone calls that plaintiffs’ employment attorneys receive is from a distraught, frustrated woman (or, once in a while, a man) who believes she has been sexually harassed and wants to pursue legal action…
When you’re hired, your employer will often tell you that you are an “at-will” employee. The next time you usually hear that phrase is when you’re fired. Employers rely on this “legal principle” to justify firing employees for any and every possible reason. In fact, employers often say that because…
When it comes to areas of Maryland law that are fundamentally flawed, that scream out for statutory revision, that overwhelmingly favor employers, several topics always come to mind: a) overtime laws that do not allow liquidated or punitive damages, b) the complete lack of family and medical leave for employers…
After nearly 15 years practicing litigation in large and small law firms, I’ve decided to open my own employment law shop — sexual harassment, employment discrimination, overtime pay, bonuses and commissions, breach of contract, family leave, unemployment appeals — all the areas of law that challenge me intellectually while allowing…