New York Questions and Answers
Discrimination and Worker's Compensation
I built a store for a large company five years ago. I am company trainer and Manager. Have a new District Manager. I was injured in August(first time in my life), a six-foot beem came down and hit me ...
1 answer | asked Dec 17, 2003 10:49 AM [EST] | applies to New York
Extremely abusive boss
My boyfriend and I were employed at a restaurant as servers. I had worked there for two years when there was a verbal confrontation between the owner and some of the employees, including myself. The o...
1 answer | asked Dec 7, 2003 9:32 PM [EST] | applies to New York
Discrimination case wrongly dismissed by EEOC
I filed a discrimination case with the EEOC. It was dismissed. The written admittance of discrimination is clear but was ignored. The extensive evidence does not corrulate with the dismissal. I have a...
1 answer | asked Dec 2, 2003 12:23 PM [EST] | applies to New York
Docking a full day's pay from exempt employees
My question is: Can exempt employees be docked a full day's pay? I've taken an employment law class and I understood an exempt employee could not be docked at all or it would erode their salaried stat...
2 answers | asked Nov 25, 2003 08:43 AM [EST] | applies to New York
Character defamation?
I have recently started a temporary work contract for a financial services company. On my official first day of employment, the HR manager called me in for a meeting and informed me that one of my pre...
1 answer | asked Nov 22, 2003 12:10 PM [EST] | applies to New York
non-compete extremly vaige
I am a victom of a non-compete contract. My contract is extremely vaige and long. I am trying to find out if the is a standard time constraint of these contracts ie: 1 yr, 2 yr instead of the 5 years ...
2 answers | asked Nov 13, 2003 3:41 PM [EST] | applies to New York
No support from corporate.
I was verbally abused and threatened by a customer. Customer called corporate, corporate said they did not care what the customer said, customer got rushed service and I believe for free. How much is ...
1 answer | asked Nov 8, 2003 2:11 PM [EST] | applies to New York
Unjust, unfair and dishonestly laid off
My employer laid off 1 senior flight attendant using discipline. They laid off 4 pilots and myself, a dispatcher, and said that since we all scored the same on evaluations, they had to use seniority f...
1 answer | asked Nov 1, 2003 4:47 PM [EST] | applies to New York
Severence pay presedents
Hi: I was recently terminated form my job which I had for one year. I held a fairly senior position and was offered 1 months severance. I know of other cases where people at my level or lower we're of...
1 answer | asked Oct 31, 2003 4:31 PM [EST] | applies to New York
cut in pay legal without notice
I am a auto technician and recently my pay was cut from $19/hr to $18.63 due to recent experation of my certifications. Is the company allowed to do this? I am scheduled to take the tests in Nov. Othe...
1 answer | asked Oct 25, 2003 9:14 PM [EST] | applies to New York