Employment Law
Briski Law Firm
San Jose Employment Attorneys
Employment Law Overview
If you’ve faced harassment or discrimination in the work place, contact us. Our firm is up to the challenge and ready to stand up for your rights. We have litigated and negotiated multiple employment cases including: sexual harassment, wrongful termination, failure to pay wages, bonuses, commissions, vacation time, and wrongful termination in violation of public policy, disability discrimination, race and age discrimination, severance packages, and more.
For more detail on specific areas, please link to the practice areas below. Our law firm can help with a wide range of employment lawsuits, including:
Protect Your Rights. Gather Information, Documents, Witnesses, & Evidence
You can make a difference! There are key evidentiary items that are almost always important in any employment case, and that will have to be addressed. This is where the Client or potential Client can help to strengthen their case and protect their rights.
1. Make a list of all witnesses. Ask people if they heard or saw an event, such as assault, battery, unlawful touching, or discriminatory comments. Obtain witness contact information. This will be used later to obtain written statements before their memories fade or they decide they “don’t recall.”
2. Obtain copies of all documents relevant to your employment. Make copies of: emails, job reviews, contracts, employment agreements, time cards, hours worked, etc... There may be a key email that identifies a salary increase you have received, or documents sexual harassment. Sometimes, documents have a way of “disappearing.” Saving or copying documents may ultimately help to strengthen your case.
3. Record dates and time of events. The best time to record something in writing is when it happened. Write down exactly what was said or what happened. Keep a log of events with times places, and people involved.
4. If you have been harassed or discriminated against, contact HR. If your company has in place an anti-sexual harassment policy or discrimination policy, (and most employers in Silicon Valley do) in most instances you are required to report unlawful harassment or discrimination. This is often the classic “double edged sword” because the employee feels that if they report harassment by a supervisor or top salesman in the organization, the company will retaliate and fire them, or make them quit. In order to determine the fine points, you will need a lawyer to help you sort out things.
Contact an attorney at our law firm today for your free consultation when you need a San Jose employment law firm with the experience to get you results.
