Employment Discrimination

Rosen Switkes & Entin P.L. has an extensive employment law practice area, and has significant experience resolving employment related disputes for our clients.  Our firm represents a number of employers, including a major private hospital in and various corporate entities, and advocates for the enforcement of restrictive covenants in employment contracts in both the trial and appellate courts. Our firm regularly provides counseling services to its employer clients regarding the sufficiency of their employee handbooks and policies, and negotiates employment contracts and severance packages with our clients' employees.

Additionally, our firm represents a number of individuals who have been subjected to improper adverse employment action, and we have a long track record of successfully resolving our clients disputes prior to and during the litigation process.

Our experience in prosecuting and defending employment related disputes involves claims brought under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act; the Fair Labor Standards Act; the Florida Civil Rights Act; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and many other Federal, State and local statutes, laws and ordinances. Our experience encompasses the full spectrum of employment related discrimination/wrongful termination, and includes cases involving age, sex, race, disability, gender, and religious discrimination in an employment setting.  In addition, our firm regularly litigates claims based upon an employer's failure to compensate an employee overtime and/or minimum wage as required by state and federal law, and an employer's failure to provide unemployment compensation benefits in violation of state law.

Additionally, Rosen Switkes & Entin P.L. prosecutes and defends employment related disputes at the administrative level, which includes exhausting administrative procedures and remedies prior to the litigation process, and submitting and defending claims brought before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Unites States Department of Education: Office of Civil Rights, the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the Miami-Dade County Equal Opportunity Board, and many other entities, prior to filing suit in Federal and State Courts.

Whether you are an employer or an employee, our firm's experience and vast resources will allow us to handle any employment related dispute you may have.

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