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FMLA Retaliation

Martoccio Law Group represents workers facing FMLA retaliation after taking protected medical or family leave under federal law.

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FMLA/Medical Leave Retaliation

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This is one of the common types of employment-related claims, as employers are often seeking to retaliate against employees that are forced to take time off due to medical reasons.

If you have been subject to an adverse employment action (termination, demotion, PIP, etc) that you believe is due to requesting or taking time off for medical reasons, there is a strong chance that you have a legal claim against your employer.

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Failure To Accommodate

Employers have to engage with a request for a reasonable accommodation for a disability, medical condition, or religious practice. Stalling the request is its own problem.
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Severance Agreement

A severance agreement is a release of claims you may not know you have. Once it is signed the leverage is gone, which is why the time to review it is before that.
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Current Employee PIP

A performance improvement plan is sometimes a real chance to improve and sometimes a paper trail built ahead of a termination. How you respond to it matters.
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Wrongful Termination

Most firings are legal, even the unfair ones. A wrongful termination claim depends on whether the real reason was discrimination, retaliation, or a violation of public policy.

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