Employment & Workplace Rights
Workplace Rights Desk
Eleven named sub-domains of employee-side employment law — discrimination and retaliation doctrine, wages, accommodation, and the agreements that end employment on someone's terms.
Intake, Claim Identification and Evidence
Spotting every claim inside one story, and the documents and timeline that make them provable.
Discrimination and Retaliation Doctrine
Protected classes, adverse actions, pretext — the doctrine that decides whether treatment was illegal or merely unfair.
Whistleblower Protected-Activity Law
What reporting is protected, to whom, and what retaliation after it is worth.
Wage-and-Hour and Misclassification Law
Overtime, off-the-clock work, and whether “contractor” or “exempt” is what the law actually says you are.
Reasonable Accommodation and Leave Law
ADA accommodation, FMLA leave, and the interactive process an employer can't skip.
Limitations, Exhaustion and Tolling
The EEOC clock, state deadlines, and the narrow doctrines that pause them.
Claim Routing and Vehicle Selection
Agency charge, lawsuit, or both — which vehicle fits the claim and what each one forecloses.
Arbitration and Forum Selection
Whether the arbitration clause you signed actually holds, and which forum the fight belongs in.
Damages Valuation, Demand and Negotiation
What a claim is worth — back pay, front pay, emotional distress, fees — and how demands get framed.
Severance, Release and Settlement Structuring Law
What a separation agreement takes from you, what it must include, and how releases get structured.
Doctrinal Currency and Appellate Posture
Where the law is moving: circuit splits, pending appeals, and the positions worth preserving on the way up.