Employment Law

Skilled Employment Law Attorneys

Most employees will never have cause to hire an employment law attorney or discrimination lawyer. However, if you’ve ever felt the sting of discrimination, you know that when an employee is taking on a major manufacturer or Fortune 500 company, that it helps to have an experienced employment law attorney on your side. On the other hand, if you are an entrepreneur, small business owner, contractor or other employer, you may have felt the frustration of fighting a frivolous lawsuit brought by a disgruntled employee and wondered “what could we have done differently?” Our primary employment law attorney, Thomas Van Camp, provides legal advice for employers or employees in employment law matters such as discrimination suits, wrongful discharge suits, and non-compete disputes. Our discrimination lawyers have represented the golf course and the caddy, the construction worker and the general contractor, the CEO and the assembly operator, the health care facility and the nursing assistant.

Employment Law for Employers

For employers, our employment law attorneys stress prevention as the antidote to frivolous lawsuits. We work with employers to keep them out of trouble by avoiding problems in the first place. Regular communication and communication with companies and their human resources departments is key to limiting liability.

Employment Law for Employees

The Federal laws prohibiting job discrimination are: Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces these employee protection laws. Combined, they have made it illegal to discriminate based on age, disability, equal pay, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, or to engage in sexual harassment. Most employees come to our employment law attorneys because they feel they have been discriminated against, or because they’ve been fired.

We represent either employees or employers in employment law matters in state or federal courts of law and are experienced with the following legal matters:

• ADA - Americans With Disabilities Act
• Affirmative Action
• Age Discrimination
• Benefits & Compensation
• Disability Discrimination
• Employee / Employer Contracts
• Employee Rights
• ERISA - Employee Retirement Income Security Act
• Family Status Discrimination
• FMLA - Family Medical Leave Act
• National Origin Discrimination
• Non-Compete Covenants
• OSHA - Occupational Safety & Health Act
• Pension Disputes
• Race Discrimination
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Wage & Hour Laws
• Whistleblower
• Wrongful Discharge Or Termination

Whether you are an employer, an employee, an entrepreneur or a CEO, we will do our utmost to provide you with vigorous representation during any litigation and appeal. In wrongful discharge and discrimination suits or any other employment law issue, we hope you will give us a call or contact our North Carolina employment law attorneys to schedule an initial appointment.