The Law Office of Mitchell A. Kline resolves matters involving the following issues (click on any of these links to learn more about these issues): Sexual Harassment Workers' Compensation Civil Rights Discrimination - Age Discrimination - Sex Discrimination - Disability Discrimination - Race Discrimination - Religious Discrimination Severance Agreements Wrongful Discharge Sexual harassment is unwanted touching particularly to certain body parts such as the buttocks or breasts, or promising job advancement if person agrees to have sex with or date the supervisor, or constant x-rated conversations regarding sex after person advises that she or he would like conduct to stop. Each of these examples becomes a much stronger case if the person reported the harassment to management and the conduct continued. Workers' compensation is receiving payment for the time missed from work and/or for the permanent disability that resulted from the injury that happened at work and/ or medical bills that were not paid. Compensation can be obtained for physical or mental injuries, however, usually a specific act or activity must have caused the injury. Civil rights includes situations where people were fired solely because of the political party to which they belong. For example, a worker's rights are violated when a Republican mayor fires a worker who is a Democrat. Another violation has occurred when a police officer made a serious mistake, which caused a severe injury to a person. Age discrimination may have occurred when a person age 40 or older has been terminated or demoted when his or her performance was clearly stronger than a person under age 40, who was not terminated or demoted. Sex discrimination may have occurred when a person of one sex has been terminated, demoted, or passed over for a promotion and a person of the other sex, who has clearly performed worse, was not terminated, demoted, or received promotion. Disability discrimination may have occurred when a person has a permanent disability and has not been accommodated in the job, even though the person can do the critical functions of job. Race discrimination may have occurred when a person of one race had been terminated, demoted, or passed over for a promotion and a person of another race, who had clearly performed worse, was not terminated, demoted, or received promotion. Religious discrimination may have occurred when a person of one religion had been terminated, demoted, passed over for a promotion, or not accommodated for a religious observance and a person of another religion was not terminated, demoted or received promotion or was accommodated for a religious observance. Severance agreements can often be negotiated; what is important to the employee and employer should be included in the agreement before the termination has occurred. Wrongful discharge includes getting fired when a person is off work because of an injury on the job or getting fired because a person reported something illegal being done by the employer; the reporting generally needs to be to an appropriate government agency.   || Practice Areas || Success Stories || || Attorney Profile || Contact Us || Home || Law Office of Mitchell A. Kline * Phone 312-558-1454 * * E-mail mitchellakline@aol.com *