Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP has deep experience as advocates for employees who have faced discrimination at work on the basis of a protected trait, or whose constitutional rights have been violated by their employers.
What Does Employment
Discrimination Representation Entail?
Our New York-based attorneys have represented employees in a wide range of employment discrimination cases, under federal, state, and local laws, such as:
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
- Section 1981
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- New York State Human Rights Law
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- New York City Human Rights Law
- Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
- New York Paid Family Leave Law
We have represented both individual plaintiffs, as well as large groups of employees in class action litigation. We regularly handle employment discrimination matters in both federal and state court, as well as before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New York State Division of Human Rights, and the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
We represent employees experiencing:
Examples of the employment discrimination cases that our firm frequently handles include:
- Disparate Treatment: When an employee is subject to an adverse employment action based on their protected trait
- Disparate Impact: When an employer’s facially neutral policy has a disproportionately negative effect on employees with a protected trait
- Sexual Harassment
- Failure to Provide Reasonable Accommodations
- Retaliation
Just a few of our firm’s notable employment discrimination cases include:
- Secured six-figure settlement for individual employee who was discriminated against on the basis of gender and familial status
- Obtained multi-million dollar settlement for class of employees who were terminated in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- Negotiated multi-million dollar settlement for fire protection inspectors discriminated against on the basis of race
- Successfully enjoined state agency’s use of sick leave policy that required employees to disclose private information, in violation of Americans with Disabilities Act
What Does Civil Rights Litigation Representation Entail?
When public-sector employers deprive employees of or otherwise violate their constitutional rights, our firm has been trusted time and again to advocate on behalf of those employees. For decades, Gladstein, Reif & Meginniss, LLP has successfully vindicated the constitutional rights of thousands of public sector employees in New York through litigation under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act. Section 1983 is a vehicle through which individuals and groups of individuals can enforce their constitutional rights against government actors (including state and local government employers).
Just several examples of the civil rights violations that our firm has litigated successfully include:
- Free speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
- False arrest and malicious prosecution under the Fourth Amendment
- Racially disparate pay under the Fourteenth Amendment
Contact us if you would like to learn more about our employment discrimination and civil rights litigation practices.