Employment Discrimination Lawyer in Center City, Philadelphia
Steven Stern is a sole practitioner in Philadelphia with more than forty years of experience, primarily in the fields of commercial and employment discrimination litigation and disputes between customers of securities brokers and their brokers.
Primary fields of expertise include:
- Employment Discrimination
- Age Discrimination
- Race Discrimination
- Disability discrimination
- National Origin Discrimination
- Gender discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Security Broker Fraud
1608 Walnut Street, Ninth Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-732-4200
FAX 215-735-1858
e-mail ststernlaw@juno.com
An Overview of the Family Medical Leave Act
November 23rd, 2011An Overview of the Family Medical Leave Act
One of the newer federal laws which protect employees is the 1993 act which provides that anyone who has worked for at least one year for a “covered” employer for at least 1250 hours in the prior twelve months is entitled to twelve ...
The duty to Mitigate Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases
May 9th, 2011All cases asking for damages for lost wages and benefits incurred as a result of discriminatory conduct by a former employer face the issue of "mitigation," or minimizing damages. The law on employment discrimination mandates that the victim of discrimination do everything he or she can to reduce their loss.
Assuming ...
Filing a Charge of Discrimination with an Appropriate Agency
December 1st, 2010Filing a Charge of Discrimination with an Appropriate Agency
With very few exceptions, the first step in pursuing a case for employment discrimination, as required by the relevant statutes (whether federal or Pennsylvania), is to file an "administrative charge" with one of the appropriate agencies. This applies if the claim is ...
An Overview of Age Discrimination Claims
October 12th, 2010An Overview of Age Discrimination Claims
Both Federal and Pennsylvania law prohibit employers from discriminating against "older" employees. The age class that is protected is people over the age of forty. What this means is that the employer is not permitted to make a decision on the hiring, firing, promotion or ...
Mandatory Arbitrations of Disputes with Financial Advisors
September 21st, 2010Almost always, when a person opens a new account with a financial adviser/stock broker, there is a standard form that must be signed. That form contains, among other provisions, a requirement that any dispute with the financial adviser/stock broker, or the broker dealer for whom he or she works, may ...
The Relationship Between Discrimination Claims and Unemployment Compensation
August 11th, 2010Often, a person who has been fired from his or her job, and believes it is the result of some form of discrimination (such as age, sex harassment, gender, national origin, race, disability or pregnancy), is also having a problem with a claim for Unemployment Compensation.
Usually, this is because the ...
Claims for Unpaid Overtime
May 28th, 2010Claims for Unpaid OvertimeBoth federal and Pennsylvania law, with certain exceptions known as "exempt employees," provide that an employee who works more than 40 hours per week is entitled to be paid overtime at a rate of 150% of the employee’s base hourly rate.
Although there are many categories of "exempt ...