Labor or employment law is a collection of precedents, legal administrative rulings and legalities that handle both the legal rights of organizations or employers and their employees. Mediation between employees, organizations or employers and trade unions is encompassed in these laws. Moreover, there exist two wide ranging labor law categories. Firstly, there is the branch that directly deals in the tripartite relations between union, employee and the employer. Secondly, there is the employee law that lists laws that consist of rights of the employees, as to do with the wage and hour claims, unpaid overtime and work contract between employer and employee.
An experienced employment attorney or lawyer acts as the mediator between an employee and their employer. Employment attorneys specialize in many different types of fields from discrimination to termination to represent their client effectively and efficiently. This can be either the employer or the employee. Mostly, employees are the ones who seek the services of employment lawyers as compared to employers. Moreover, employers have to get employment lawyers to represent their cases like sexual harassment, wrongful termination, civil rights violations in the workplace, etc.
It is always necessary for a business owner to sometimes take severe actions to prevent litigation in the workplace involving such varied issues as discrimination, harassment, and restrictive covenants and non-compete agreements, union collective bargaining agreements, severance packages, employee handbooks, confidentiality agreements and severance agreements.
If you are an employer, you want to ensure your complete legal rights that are protected and also minimize your exposure to liability. And, if you are an employee in any organization, the underlying issues may be the same, but your point of view may be different. At the law office of Samuel D. Bornstein, P.A. in Paramus, New Jersey (NJ), the employment law firm protects businesses and workers in planning and litigating employment law matters with extreme sophistication.
Employment attorneys/lawyers (NJ) of Samuel D. Bornstein law firm also provides assistance in hostile work environment cases that may develop in all types of businesses or organizations. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New Jersey (NJ) Law against discrimination are two statutes that protect employees from having to endure this, or any form of discrimination. If you are an employer and want to develop employee policies that will reduce the likelihood of discrimination occurring in the workplace, the employment attorneys/lawyers of New Jersey can extend their help.
Author, Samuel D. Bornstein, is associated with the law firm and has 40 years of experience in representing individuals and a wide variety of businesses from Fortune 100 companies that need specialized assistance to smaller companies that look to the firm as their “in house” lawyer for general day-to-day advice. The firm is experienced with transactional work and litigation, emphasizing corporate and partnership operations, employment and workplace law, professional negligence, malpractice matters, immigration and real state matters and insurance defense.
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