Month: August 2014

A lot of times in Westchester County clients come to us because they are having problems on the job and they are really not interested in bringing along a standing litigation, litigation typically starts in an administrative agency in our area of law and that means...

When employees are faced with a new supervisory structure, there are different rules and protocol that need to be followed and it’s often a situation where change is difficult. Sometimes, it’s a lack of communication between the employee and the supervisor, and...

Civil servants in the state of New York or pursuing to civil service law are entitled to receive notice of a suspension and at times that suspension notice will come with an immediate suspension without pay, sometimes employers determine that the seriousness of the...

Often times people come to see us at Gould & Berg in White Plains, NY because there has been a change in their supervisor or a change in the management structure of the company for which they work, and typically that’s when problems start to arise. Often times new...

Not withstanding the anti-discrimination laws in this country, and all the cases you read about, we often hear of women who as Hillary Clinton says "have not cracked the glass ceiling" and find out that they are being paid less in terms of actual compensation and...

Typically in the college setting, you are going to find that there are procedures in place which provide a student with the right of some sort of due process, which could involve, for example, submitting some type of opposition to an allegation of misconduct and or...

Sometimes in college settings, when a student is accused of cheating, the student is asked to meet with an official of the school in Westchester County.  For example, the Dean of the School or someone in the personnel department. Each school is different in terms of...

Often time employees feel that negative statements, that have been made about them, regarding their job performance or regarding some particular interaction with the client, are so negative that it actually defames their character or their reputation. The concern...

Particularly now with the status of the economy a lot of companies are going through reorganizations or restructurings and typically the goal of these reorganizations is to save money. Personnel payrolls tend to be one of the biggest expenses, the administrative...

ze-medium wp-image-1596" src="/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/shutterstock_1658757-300x200.jpg" alt="shutterstock_1658757" width="300" height="200" />Selective prosecution is an area of law that has changed dramatically in the last ten years. It used to be that a lot...