Baltimore Employment Discrimination Lawyers

Skilled Employment Discrimination Attorneys for Clients in Baltimore, Maryland

Employment discrimination can take many different forms. Sometimes, it is overt, but in other cases, it may be subtle and insidious. As an employee, you may feel disadvantaged trying to take legal action against your employer for discriminatory practices. With the help of a Baltimore employment law attorney, you can effectively stand up for your rights.

At Freedman Law, LLC, we have years of experience representing clients in employment law claims. You can rely on our firm to provide you with strong representation and counsel, as we handle claims across a wide variety of industries and fields. In our firm's history, we have taken on thousands of cases on behalf of clients who have experienced wrongful discrimination.

Types of Workplace Discrimination

There are federal and state laws that protect employees from discrimination based on certain grounds. Our firm can assist you with a variety of different discrimination claims, including:

• Racial discrimination
• Gender-based discrimination, including sexual harassment and unequal pay
• Age-based discrimination
• Disability discrimination
• Pregnancy discrimination
• Sexual orientation discrimination

Workplace discrimination can take place in hiring, promotions, discipline, and in other aspects of employment. Other kinds of workplace discrimination may involve an employee's religion, country of origin, or military service.

When you work with our firm, we will help you document all instances of discrimination to help you build your case. We handle every discrimination claim with a communicative, hands-on approach. If necessary, we are willing to proceed to litigation to help you obtain a favorable outcome, drawing on years of legal experience.

Identifying Discrimination in the Workplace

It is not always easy to identify discrimination at your place of employment. In many cases, employers will deny that they are participating in or enabling discriminatory practices.

Discriminatory remarks or disparaging comments about your ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, other things outside of your control can create a hostile work environment, which can affect your ability to do your job. In some cases, harassment can be resolved internally by reporting it to your HR representative.

Other examples of workplace discrimination may involve unfair treatment by your employer. For instance, your employer might punish you more harshly than your coworkers based solely on your race. In another instance, your employer might pay you less than employees of the opposite gender for the same work.

Routine workplace discrimination can have a tangible impact on your productivity. An attorney can give you an idea of your options and help you pursue the next steps.

Filing an Employment Discrimination Claim Through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Employees have federal protections against workplace discrimination. These protections are enforced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which has the authority to investigate charges of discrimination.

If you want to take legal action against employment discrimination, you usually have 180 days (but in no cases more than 300 days) to file a charge with the EEOC. Afterwards, a representative from the agency will investigate your workplace to see if the alleged discrimination occurred. Once the investigation is completed, the EEOC can either attempt to help you and your employer reach a settlement through mediation, or dismiss the charge if there is not enough evidence.

A remedy for employment discrimination may involve direct compensation for losses as well as punitive damages. Other remedies may be more specific to the situation, like reinstatement for a wrongful termination.