Month: May 2016

As an experienced White Plains County Employment Attorney, I consistently receive questions about protecting oneself for reporting suspected child abuse.  People may not know that in New York, pursuant to the New York social services law certain employees are mandated...

When one is appointed to a civil service position in the state of New York, one is specifically appointed on probation and the probation can last a particular time. It's typically 26 weeks but it can be up to 52 weeks, and still can be extended. As an experienced...

  As experienced Rockland County Employment Lawyers, we receive phone calls from potential clients often saying that they feel they’ve been wrongfully terminated. That’s a term of art that really needs to be explored to determine whether there’s some basis for a...

As an experienced White Plains Employment Attorney, I often have municipal employees come to our practice.  We all know that today in the municipal setting that budget is everything and all municipal entities are looking for ways to cut their expenditures. We have...

  As seasoned Westchester Employment Lawyers, people come into our office often and describe things happening in the workplace that they call harassment. What we have to tell people is that the word harassment in and of itself has no legal meaning. The words that...

As an experienced White Plains Employment Lawyer, I have had many teachers that are appointed on a probationary period, but are on a tenured track. This means that you haven’t talked about having tenure after three years, after successful completion of three years...

  As skilled Putnam County Employment Attorneys, we've seen a recent trend for employees to provide not specific references about the substance of an employee’s work performance, job capabilities, et cetera on the job, but rather to provide a perspective employer...

As an experienced White Plains Employment Lawyer, I do a lot of work with tenured teachers in my practice.  The most frequent complaint that we have recently is that the teacher is receiving an evaluation or classroom observation that rates the teacher as either...