Discrimination and harassment, unpaid wages and overtime, retaliation and wrongful termination. Federal law applies everywhere, and many states add protections of their own.
The rules depend on your state, so the points below are set out state by state.
Lawyers whose own published profile focuses on employment work. Each lawyer was checked on their state bar's public directory before being listed — check again before you hire, as people move firms.
Rocco Calamusa Jr. · Member · Birmingham
The Kress Building, 301 19th Street North, Birmingham, AL 35203
Member of a Birmingham firm of plaintiffs' attorneys. His practice covers discrimination and retaliation, harassment, wage and hour claims, whistleblower and qui tam cases, civil rights, and class and collective actions.
Normally 180 calendar days from the discrimination. It becomes 300 days where a state or local agency enforces a law against the same kind of discrimination (for age discrimination, only a state law counts). Equal Pay Act claims don't need a charge and have two years, or three if the discrimination was willful. Federal employees must contact their agency's EEO counselor within 45 days.
Alabama has no state minimum wage law, so employers covered by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act must pay the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Most discrimination claims start with a charge to the EEOC, whose Birmingham District Office is at Ridge Park Place, 1130 22nd Street South, Suite 2000, Birmingham. Complaints about wages under federal law can go to the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (1-866-487-9243). Lawsuits go to the federal courts or the state circuit or district court, depending on the claim.
To practise law in Alabama a lawyer must be licensed through the Alabama State Bar. You can look up any lawyer in the State Bar's public Find a Member search, and the Bar publishes its disciplinary history. Each lawyer on these pages was checked in that search before being listed, but people move firms, so check again before you hire. Complaints about a lawyer go to the State Bar's Office of General Counsel.