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If you believe or feel that you may have been wrongfully fired or subjected to illegal employment practices, please call us, at no charge, to tell us why. We may be able to assist you, and we usually do so on a contingent fee basis with us forwarding the costs of the litigation. This means we only recover a fee if we are successful for you.
We Represent Persons Whose Rights Were Violated
We represent persons wrongfully terminated.
We represent persons subjected to illegal employment practices, such as discrimination, hostile work environment, harassment, sexual harassment, and retaliation.
We represent whistleblowers.
At Will Status Does Not Protect Employers
Employees have rights. Employment at will generally means that an employer may discharge an employee at any time for any lawful reason. However, the at will status does not allow employers to violate employees' rights and wrongfully terminate them for illegal reasons or subject them to illegal working conditions.
Illegal employment actions include when an employer:
State Laws and Federal Laws Grant Employees Rights
Some of these laws include:
If you believe or feel that you have been subjected to an illegal employment action, please call us at 915-875-0003.
If you believe or feel that you may have been wrongfully fired or subjected to illegal employment practices, please call us, at no charge, to tell us why. We may be able to assist you, and we usually do so on a contingent fee basis with us forwarding the costs of the litigation. This means we only recover a fee if we are successful for you.
We Represent Persons Whose Rights Were Violated
We represent persons wrongfully terminated.
We represent persons subjected to illegal employment practices, such as discrimination, hostile work environment, harassment, sexual harassment, and retaliation.
We represent whistleblowers.
At Will Status Does Not Protect Employers
Employees have rights. Employment at will generally means that an employer may discharge an employee at any time for any lawful reason. However, the at will status does not allow employers to violate employees' rights and wrongfully terminate them for illegal reasons or subject them to illegal working conditions.
Illegal employment actions include when an employer:
- engages in any form of threat, retaliation, or discrimination against any person who has opposed any unlawful discriminatory practice, filed a complaint, or testified or participated in any proceeding under various employment laws;
- refuses to hire, fires, fails to promote, demotes, or discriminates in matters of compensation terms, conditions, or privileges of employment against a person based on illegal considerations, such as race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, serious medical condition or physical or mental handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity, or spousal affiliation;
- retaliates against a person who communicated about unlawful or improper acts, generally called whistleblowing;
- retaliates against a person who objected to or refused to participate in an unlawful or improper act;
- refuses or fails to accommodate a person's mental or physical handicap or serious medical condition; or
- discharges a person for engaging in conduct protected by public policy.
State Laws and Federal Laws Grant Employees Rights
Some of these laws include:
- New Mexico Human Rights Act
- New Mexico Whistleblower Protection Act
- Texas Labor Code
- Texas Whistleblower Act
- Sabine Pilot Doctrine
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)
- Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA)
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)
- Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA / ADAAA)
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)
If you believe or feel that you have been subjected to an illegal employment action, please call us at 915-875-0003.