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Practice Areas
Employment Law
The average American spends over 90,000 hours of their life at work. In fact, many Americans
spend more of their waking hours with their co-workers than they do with their own families. As a
result, in addition to generating the income necessary to live, work is a major source of identity and
self-worth. Losing your job, or being subjected to harassment, discrimination or discipline, can have
devastating effects, both financially and emotionally, on both you and your family.
CREIGHTON & ROSE, PC, has devoted the majority of its practice to ensuring that all employees –
whether executive or custodian, laborer or professional, sales associate or tradesperson, private
sector or government employee – be afforded nothing less than the rights to which they are entitled
under the law. That means many things. It means enforcing an employee’s right to work in a place
free from discrimination because of race, age, sex (including pregnancy), religion, sexual orientation
or marital status. It means enforcing an employee’s right to work in a place free from retaliation and
harassment. It means enforcing an employee’s right to equal pay for equivalent work, regardless of
gender, and to overtime wages for qualified overtime work. It means fighting for justice for
employees who blow the whistle on their employers’ illegal or harmful activities. It means enforcing
an employee’s rights to take family leave, sick leave and to utilize the workers’ compensation
system. In some cases, it means negotiating a fair and adequate severance package.
Our years of experience and focused expertise has earned the respect of the community, the court
system and even defense attorneys. We are recognized as unrelenting, hard working advocates for
workplace justice, who are not afraid to take on the “big guys.” But we refuse to rest on our laurels.
We have excelled in this highly specialized, complex and ever changing area of law – and have
obtained favorable results – because of our commitment and dedication to the needs and the rights
of our clients. We are at your service.
- Discrimination based on race, national origin, ethnicity, age or gender
- Hostile Work Environment and Sexual Harassment
- Wrongful discharge and retaliation
- Wage/overtime claims (individual and collective)
- Employer-mandated arbitrations
- Severance negotiations
- Appeals
Particularly in these difficult economic times, issues in the workplace are an increasingly widespread problem. For some basic information, the following websites may be helpful:
Civil Rights
You have the right to speak freely. You have the right to practice your own religion, to not practice
any religion, and not to be forced to practice anyone else’s religion. You have the right to be free
from discrimination on the basis of race, age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability. You have the right
to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. You have the right to be free from unlawful
incarceration. You have the right to be free from the excessive use of force by police officers. You
have the right to due process of law before the government can deprive you of life, liberty or
property. You have the right to the equal protection of the law. These are just some of your civil rights
that are protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Sometimes, those rights are
violated. There is often a remedy, but remedies do not come easily.
CREIGHTON & ROSE, PC, is committed to pursuing redress for the violation of the civil rights of our
clients. Our experience, expertise and commitment has made us a formidable advocate for people
who have suffered at the hands of the government, its agents or its officers. And it takes a
formidable advocate: the government doesn’t like to have its authority and power challenged or
second-guessed, and it doesn’t like to admit that it’s wrong. Even in the face of that, we continue to
successfully engage the government on behalf of our clients.
Your civil rights must not be taken for granted. Sometimes, they need to be fought for. That’s what
we do.
- Abuse of rights by the government
- Federal employees
- Police misconduct/excessive force
- Illegal search and seizure
- Retaliation for whistleblowing
- Violation of First Amendment rights
- Racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination
Get in Touch with Us
Please call for a brief, telephone consultation, or submit the form with your queries.