Employment law is designed to protect workers’ rights. These laws also set clear legal obligations on employers to create safe, accessible, and fair work environments for their employees. The Manifest Justice Law Corporation is committed to serving workers who have experienced, or are currently experiencing, harassment, discrimination, and/or retaliation.
Discrimination isn’t always obvious. Often times, individuals may face multiple forms of discrimination. This is why our Manifest Justice network of multi-disciplinary experts are dedicated to addressing the complex and intersectional nature of discrimination in the workplace.
WHO DOES MJLC HELP?
Workers who have experienced identity-based discrimination at work. We interfere when an employer, manager, or colleague discriminates against someone due to race, skin color, or nation of origin; sex or gender; age; or, disability.
Workplace sexual harassment is unique because it includes any unwanted sexual behavior which creates a hostile, intimidating, or offensive work environment. Harassment can also occur when a manager, employer, or person in a position of power, expects you to engage in a sexual relationship in order for you to continue employment, be promoted, or receive work benefits (“Quid Pro Quo”). Our team has more than a decade of experience working with survivors of racial, sexual, and interpersonal violence.
WHO DOES MJLC HELP?
People who have experienced rape, battery, sexual assault(s), or harassment by an employer, colleague, manager, or work associate.
Most bad actors use their business personas and work lives to cover up their illegal conduct. This is why there are so many federal, state, and local laws aimed at protecting the people who are brave enough to speak up when they see or experience something wrong at work. Retaliation laws give workers the right to report discrimination and harassment; take medical leave; ask for and receive a reasonable accommodation; complain and seek information about wages; act as a whistleblower; and, refuse unwelcome advances or behaviors. MJLC applies retaliation laws at every level to defend people who have been exiled for exercising their rights.
WHO DOES MJLC HELP?
Workers who have been retaliated against after reporting, or otherwise speaking out against, harassment or discrimination in the workplace.
We spend most of our best awake hours at work and with our colleagues and supervisors. If we’re lucky, we build close friendships, romances, and mentor-mentee relationships while at work. This can make speaking up against bad behavior and bad actors even more difficult and complex. Perhaps you are seeking legal representation without wanting to go public with your allegations? If so, give us a call.
WHO DOES MJLC HELP?
Workers who have experienced or witnessed discrimination, harassment, or retaliation, and is seeking representation during an internal workplace investigation. We protect workers who want to speak out discretely, without walking away from their jobs.
Gender discrimination.
Racial discrimination.
Disability discrimination.
Age discrimination.
Sexual harassment.
Gender based harassment.
Domestic violence.
Battery / sexual violence.
Workplace retaliation.
Whistleblower protection.
Wrongful termination.
Constructive termination and forced resignation.
Whistleblower protection.
Internal workplace investigations.
Witnesses standing with whistleblowers.
There are many ways an employer can violate your rights. The Manifest Justice Law Corporation is focused on providing trauma-conscious remedies to workers who have experienced discrimination, sexual harassment or domestic violence, or retaliation in work-related environments.
A “work-related environment” includes violations that occur at work, at remote work locations, during an on-site or off-site work event, and during the interview process — regardless if you are, or are not, hired by the offending employer. Predators and their protectors often feel entitled to behave inappropriately with impunity in workplaces. However, regardless of the pretense reason your employer provides, prejudice in professional settings is prohibited by national and local laws.
Every day employers are substantially compensating former employees and applicants for medical expenses, emotional trauma, and additional costs, as a consequence of allowing violence in the workplace to persist. At Manifest Justice Law Corporation we ensure you receive what you need to recover from the losses incurred for speaking truth to power.
We are here to offer you a path forward, remind you what it feels like to have someone stand in your corner, and defend your right to work without being subjected to abuse.
We believe you.
Let us relieve you of the burdensome weight of carrying trauma.
Identifying a workplace violation can be difficult. Below is a non-exhaustive list of examples to help provide clarity. If you have experienced something that does not appear on this list, reach out so we can help you determine if a legal violation has occurred.
Paying a woman less than her male counterparts, despite being over-qualified and highly educated.
A person who is injured, then fired shortly after seeking a reasonable work accommodation.
Repeatedly failing to promote the single Polynesian employee on the team without cause, and despite complimentary performance reviews.
Humiliating someone for having limits on their ability to participate in a work activity.
Redistributing job responsibilities of an employee who recently turned 45 years-old without cause or any legitimate business purpose.
Two colleagues break-up. One associate repeatedly sends inappropriate private messages to their ex-partner/colleague during work meetings.
Two colleagues attend a work conference. At a social event after the conference, one colleague gets drunk and gropes the other.
A colleague who talks about their fetish of watching pornography with Black actors.
A university professor who repeatedly asks their student teacher out on dates, then, after rejected advances, the professor retaliates with negative performance review.
A senior executive, who was planning on retiring soon, seeks policy changes to stop unequal treatment of minimum wage employees. For Christmas, the company gifts the executive an expensive severance package, so the executive “can get a head start on retirement.”
After refusing and reporting the sexual advances of a colleague, an employee is told their position no longer exists and they are being promoted to a role working directly with the offending colleague, unsupervised. The harmed employee’s options are to either continue being subjected to harassment, or to quit.
A teacher who sees inappropriate behavior between another teacher and a student. The school fires the reporting teacher, who then sues the school for wrongful termination. You want to be a witness, but you’re afraid because everyone on staff has begun ignoring the reporting-teacher.
After receiving a pregnancy-related accommodation at work, an employee begins receiving harsh feedback in their performance reviews. Now she is suing your employer. You want to help your former colleague in their lawsuit, but you are afraid of being retaliated against.
Someone who feels unsure if they have experienced a workplace violation and is seeking legal protection as they pursue the internal reporting / investigation process.
Do not wait for answers, apologies, or accountability. Freedom is possible and in progress.
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