Furlough and Failure to Rehire Age Discrimination Lawyer
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If you were furloughed by your employer and were not brought back to work or rehired, and believe it to be because of your age, you may have a legal claim against your employer.
We focus almost exclusively on plaintiffs employment law, generally work on a contingency fee basis, and have a full suite of employment Practice Areas for your workplace needs. We will speak with you entirely confidentially, even if we can’t represent you, about your situation and develop a strategy in order for you to get the best outcome. You can reach us from 7am to 7pm Monday through Friday, and 8am to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Direct Rehiring Age Discrimination
The concept is fairly simple. Imagine 5 workers are furloughed and only 4 are rehired. It happens that the 4 rehired workers are between 25 and 39 years old, while the unhired person is 60 years old. This leads to a direct inference of age discrimination.
While it can be rebutted by the employer (in our experience it is always contested, they will never admit it), it is sufficient enough information that you should contact an age discrimination lawyer to research your case. MKO will conduct a thorough (and complementary) examination of your situation and may be able to help you recover losses incurred due to not being rehired.
Company Policy Based Age Discrimination “Disparate Impact”
If workers have been furloughed and the company is only rehiring younger people based on criteria meant to exclude older workers, there may be a legal remedy available. The law in Pennsylvania says that it is illegal when, “a specific, facially neutral employment practice caused a significantly disproportionate adverse impact based on age. Plaintiffs can demonstrate such impact with various forms of evidence, including forty-and-older comparisons, subgroup comparisons, or more sophisticated statistical modeling.” Karlo v. Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC.
Policy based discrimination or situations with larger groups can be complicated and you need to contact legal counsel if you believe this is an issue.
Why Do Employers Discriminate Based on Age?
There are multiple reasons why an employer might opt to not rehire an older worker when given the chance. Furloughs of multiple people often provide “legal cover” for employers to permanently separate from employees they otherwise would not be easily able to terminate. A few reasons employers discriminate based on age include:
- Cost Reduction – Younger workers cost less in regard to wages as well as benefits like healthcare, paid time off, and other benefits. This is very apparent if the older employee has worked with the same company for many years and benefited from regular wage and benefit increases.
- Stereotypes and Bias – Unfortunately, there is a common belief that older works are technology illiterate, old-fashioned, and out of touch with modern ways of doing things and that younger workers can achieve significantly better results.
- Company Culture and Image – Across the spectrum, companies go to significant lengths to seem “cutting-edge” and embody a culture of younger highly motivated workers. Companies often want this persona as it implies youthfulness, strength, vitality, and a brand that people and businesses want to work with.
- Supervisor and Manager Discomfort –Younger managers often feel awkward giving direction and orders to someone significantly older than them. It’s a well-studied phenomenon that changing the age dynamic, as in a society where elders typically are in charge and lead, impacts the psychology of younger mangers and causes that uncomfortable feeling. This often leads to a deteriorated relationship where the younger manager identifies and becomes friends with other younger workers but has a distant or awkward relationship with the older worker.
If you have not been rehired after a furlough and younger employees have, please contact an MKO Employment Discrimination Lawyer for a free legal consultation – we are open 74+ hours a week.
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After dispensing thousands of legal consultations to potential clients, I can easily say it’s my favorite part of my practice. My guidance, even if I can’t accept them as a client, helps people immeasurably in figuring out what to do and how to move forward with their lives. I make a measurable impact every single day on many people. Who else can say that about their job? I love it. Call me. – Michael Kraemer, Esq.
Making a rehiring decision based on a protected factor like age, disability, etc. may be unlawful. You may be eligible to pursue compensation for:
- Back pay
- Future lost earnings
- Emotional distress
- Pain and suffering
- Compensatory damages
- Liquidated damages
- Punitive damages
- Attorney’s fees and costs
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MKO is a “boutique firm” which means that we focus on a niche area and offer highly specialized services to clients who are looking for the personal touch within our area of expertise: Employment Law. Boutique law firms are not a general practice or one-stop legal shop, and that’s a good thing. You need one good attorney who knows the ins and outs of the area of law that’s relevant to your case. Look for a law firm that primarily practices the area of law that you need. If that’s all they do, chances are, they do it very well. We see each legal dispute as an opportunity to find a fair and equitable resolution without destroying your reputation, resume, job prospects, income, and if avoidable, not subjecting you, your family, friends, and former coworkers to unnecessary, highly invasive, time consuming, stressful, and ultimately public litigation. MKO, “Providing you a path forward in your life, career, and recovering the compensation you deserve.™” Confidentiality is key, for everyone. Are you a victim? MKO’s employment lawyers are always available for the clients. You can contact us anytime for a case assessment and evaluation.Â
Ten Reasons To Choose Our Law Firm
1. Focused Employment Law Practice
MKO is a “boutique law firm” which means that we concentrate on this niche area and offer highly focused employment law services to clients who are looking for the personal touch. Boutique law firms are not a one-stop legal shop, and that’s a good thing. While a long roster of diverse legal services may look impressive on paper, it’s fairly pointless in practice. You need one good attorney who knows the ins and outs of the area of law that’s relevant to your case. Look for a law firm that only practices in the area of law that you need. If that’s all they do, chances are, they do it very well.
2. Technology Driven & Experts in the Cloud
We provide immediate legal consultations, operate a paperless law firm, use advanced cloud storage, digital signatures, electronic forms, and can review your documents using screen share technology instantaneously. MKO is technologically savvy, nimble, flexible, and efficient.Â
We are not confined to our office, chained to a desktop computer, or burdened with IT maintenance. Thanks to the smart use of technology we can focus on providing our clients with the best representation possible. By streamlining our practice we can focus on what our clients hire us to do – advocate on their behalf and work diligently toward a desired result.
3. Legal Advice Instantly From The Comfort of Home
MKO can provide superior legal services through adapative use of new technology and provide the majority of legal assistance while you are comfortably working from your home. It just also happens it’s better, easier, and faster for our clients – they really appreciate it. We seemlessly and interactively collaborate with you in a relaxed enviornment where you have all of your files in your immediate control. We find this is the absolute best way to provide legal advice to our clients on complex legal issues, hands down.
The old style of coming into our office with binders of disjointed and unsearchable paperwork, of which we to organize and figure out on the fly, is incredibly wasteful, time-consuming, inefficient, and not highly productive. Because of our integration with technology, we are ready to work with you on highly intricate matters on a moments notice, no matter where you (or we) are.
4. Discreet When Necessary
While many cases require that we go to court to seek justice, there are a substantial number of disputes that need to be handled discreetly. We see each legal dispute as an opportunity to find a fair and equitable resolution without destroying your reputation, resume, job prospects, income, and if avoidable, not subjecting you, your family, friends, and former coworkers to unnecessary, highly invasive, time consuming, stressful, and ultimately public litigation. MKO, “Providing you a path forward in your life, career, and recovering the compensation you deserve.™”
Confidentiality is key, for everyone.Â
5. Experience, Professional, & Integrity
Through representing and managing thousands of employment situations, rest assured there is help or a path forward for your situation. For example, Partner Christi Wallace has personally represented over 900 clients and has managed hundrends more for associates that worked for her in just the last 7 years!
6. Highly Responsive Attorneys
We always get the question, “If I choose to have you represent me, will it be difficult for me to get in touch with you?”
Absolutely not, we even make ourselves available to clients beyond our normal business hours! Futher, when you call us your attorney answers, not a secretary who puts you on hold for 20 minutes, then tells you that you can leave a voicemail for your attorney. Besides the MKO office phone number, our clients can contact their attorney via mobile, SMS & texting, business email, and an urgent emergency email. For example, we can often respond to a text message in just a few minutes. Experience a better, faster, and more efficient way to work with an attorney. MKO believes that clients can and should depend on the fact that we’ll respond quickly.
7. Attorneys Available 74+ Hours Per Week
Employment Attorneys are available at least 74 hours per week by phone, email, and text messaging. Don’t be fooled by marketing, many law firms are using non-attorney 3rd party answering services and advertising “Phones Answered 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week.” We pick up our own phones, respond to our own emails and text messages, and use real attorneys, 74+ hours per week.Â
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8. Practical Advice From Seasoned Professionals
MKO strongly believes that every situation is distinctly unique and therefore we must endevour to find the right solution for that particular issue. Because we are a boutique employment law firm, we strive to find unique and innovation solutions for our clients in every circustance. We take action when necessary, put together deals when possible, and work with our clients so we can be creative and find smart solutions instead of needless litigation. We want to protect your interests now and in the future.
9. Contingency Representation
Contingency Legal Representation is where you do not have to pay your lawyer up front. This is fantastic if you are offered this option. Lawyers and litigation costs are incredibly expensive if you pay hourly. With contingency representation, you are not faced with large legal bills and expenses that are daunting and causes slow downs while waiting for a retainer to be replenished. Further, when you’re offering to pay anyone up front and hourly, it seems they’ll take almost any case – so long as they are getting paid. Funny how that works. Here’s how we help:
- People can afford an attorney. – Without the benefit of contingency, it would be very difficult for a person who was recently seperated from their job to afford an employment lawyer.
- MKO only gets paid if there is a recovery. – We put our money where our mouth is, if we don’t get a recovery, you don’t owe legal fees and costs.
- Contingency representation says something about your case. – Considering MKO only will get paid if there is a recovery, you can assume we like to cases that we believe have merit.
- Helps people can move on with their lives – Instead of racking up debt to pay for legal help, our contingency representation lets you move on with your life as we deal with the legal stuff. This is exactly what MKO stands for, “Providing you a path forward in your life, career, and recovering the compensation you deserve.™”
10. Keeping Costs Low To Focus On Your Case
Our clients understand that their representation is are far more important than an expensive address. Some law firms might be battling an extremely burdensome and large cost overhead. In other words, to survive, they may need to be a “factory firm” or “volume practice” that needs to process a vast amount of cases to be able to afford their superfluous costs, expenses, and overhead. We aggressively keep costs down so we can focus on you.
Don’t want to be treated like an account number, a settlement figure, or a wheel that needs to be turned to keep the law firm getting paid? We keep our costs low and use this financial freedom for our clients best interests.
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I trusted Mr. Kraemer with a rather difficult period of time for my family, and we came out on top. He is trustworthy and honest, incredibly helpful, and understanding. Five stars aren’t enough! Him and his staff are well experienced, and won’t let up until the truth is known and justice is served. Michael, it’s been a pleasure. I hope I never need your services again! If I do, I will not hesitate to give you a call.
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Michael Kraemer was the only lawyer who took my case and would be the only lawyer I’d rely on. He kept me informed and was very intellectual on the whole subject that my case was revolved around. I give Mr. Kraemer a 10 out of 10 and I would refer him and his associates to anyone who wants a well defined lawyer.
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