MIAMI-DADE COUNTY EMPLOYMENT LAW

If you live in Miami-Dade County and have experienced an issue with your previous employment, unemployment benefits, severance pay, or issues of discrimination, seeking legal advice from a labor lawyer is one of the best ways to achieve the most desirable outcome. Whether you need help calculating the amount of severance pay or unemployment you're owed, or are wondering how to deal with harassment in the workplace, an employment attorney can provide the expert counsel and representation you need to help resolve the situation in your benefit.

Labor laws are meant to protect the rights of both employers and employees, but the details can be complicated for the average person to navigate on their own. A Miami-Dade County unemployment lawyer or expert discrimination attorney can help you to understand the complex rules of law and state your case in order to achieve the best possible result.

The following examples are situations where an employment lawyer can help:

  • Have you recently lost a job under circumstances that seem unfair, or for reasons that were out of your control, but your boss denied you severance pay? An unemployment lawyer can determined whether you have been laid off as opposed to fired, and exactly how much compensation you are owed.
  • Does your boss refuse to pay you overtime hours? There are many ways that unscrupulous employers try to cheat employees to avoid paying overtime, such as altering timesheets, refusing to count lunch and breaks as paid job time, or averaging hours out between several weeks. If any of these things are happening at your workplace in Miami-Dade County, you may be owed substantially more money than you have been paid for overtime hours.
  • Do your boss or coworkers make fun of you, refuse to promote you, or pay you a lesser wage than other employees because of your race, religion, disability, gender, or other personal factors? You may have a case for workplace harassment or illegal discrimination.