My Employment Lawyer ("MEL") has:
- free employment law information and answers,
- an attorney directory and
- Ask MEL, a free service for sending your employment law question to attorneys in your state.
- New: My Employment Blogger, MEL's blog.
Protect your employment rights!
1: Read MEL's FAQs on:
- Discrimination and the EEOC
- Family and medical leave
- New: Mandatory employment arbitration
- New: Avoiding employment arbitration
- New: Employment arbitration practice and procedure
- Non-competition agreements
- New: Ohio non-Competition Article with History and Case Law
- Ohio's new Constitutional Minimum Wage Law
- Ohio's Smoke Free Workplace Act
- Retaliation and whistleblowing
- Severance agreements
- Sexual harassment FAQs
- Sexual harassment - the wrongfully accused.
- Taxation of Settlements for Employment Claims
Now you have a general understanding of these employment law topics.
Find employment law Answers!
2: Search MEL's Answers about:
- Benefits
- Contract, including employment at-will
- Defamation
- Discrimination
- Family Leave
- Harassment
- Non-compete
- Overtime
- Retaliation
- Severance
- Unions
- Wage payment, including final pay and vacation
- Workers compensation
MEL's Answers come from lawyers representing employees across the United States. These attorneys asnwer questions from employees like you. How?
Ask MEL Your Question!
3: Ask MEL your question
MEL will send your question to attorneys in your state, for free. The attorneys have no obligation to answer your question, but have so far answered over 2, 500 of them, so you have a chance. Follow MEL's tips on writing a good question to give yourself the best chance of getting an answer.
If you have a serious employment problem, like a termination or a non-competition agreement, you will need individual legal advise.
Consult MEL's attorney directory!
4: Find your Lawyer through MEL
MEL's free attorney directory includes hundreds of attorneys, each with his or her own profile. The attorneys provide their own information, including their education and experience.
Most importantly, plug the name of each attorney near you into the Search box at the top of each page and you will find any profile he or she prepared as well as the questions he or she wrote.
Find answers to your employment law questions. Use the answers to select your lawyer.
No other Lawyer Service provides answers like these!
A community of employment lawyers providing answers to employment law questions for employees.
Created and hosted by Akron, Ohio attorney Neil Klingshirn
Recent answers include:
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MEL' FAQ employment law topics:
Non-competition agreements;
Severance pay;
Retaliation;
Harassment;
Family leave;
Discrimination;
Wrongfully accused;
Whistleblowing; and
Overtime
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