Your West Virginia employer is obligated to ensure your safety on the job. He or she must also comply with all labor laws, including those that are relevant to wages. If your contract states that you are to receive a certain amount of overtime pay, then your employer...
Our Attorneys Will Fight To Protect Your Rights
Photo of attorney Dunham's sons
Employee Rights
What constitutes verbal abuse in a work environment?
Whether a company recently hired you or you have been working at the same West Virginia company for years, you can expect your employer to ensure a safe work environment each and every time you report for duty. No one has a right to harass you or impede your ability...
How to fight back against sexual harassment in your workplace
When you go to work, you have the right to do your job in an environment that is safe and respectful. You should not have to face threats of physical harm, emotional duress or other negative treatment of a sexual nature. Unfortunately, West Virginia employees...
Discrimination at work is still a common problem
When a job is somewhere you go every day or at least several times a week, it helps if it is a nice place to work. Ideally, you get along with your co-workers, respect your boss and enjoy your duties. In many cases, these factors can even make up for...
Were you passed over for promotion because of your age?
Perhaps you have worked for a manufacturing company for two decades. The business has expanded in that time, and you are partially responsible for its success.You feel discouraged because you have a new manager who passed you over for promotion, choosing a younger,...
Blowing the whistle on sex discrimination
Sexual harassment and sex discrimination have no place in society. As recent headlines suggest, though, the U.S. workforce has a long way to go in eradicating unacceptable behaviors. As you likely know, stopping discrimination often requires speaking...
Why employees avoid reporting harassment and discrimination
If you are experiencing harassment or discrimination in your workplace, you may be wondering whether you should speak up or not. Some employees in this situation decide to stay quiet because they believe that the consequences of speaking up will outweigh the...
Are you being unfairly treated because of your faith?
You would think that in our enlightened times, religious tolerance would be the norm in just about every kind of business.Unfortunately, discrimination exists, and you may have found that you are a target because of your faith. A changing job descriptionYou believed...
Four Ways Email Can Endanger Your Job
Email: it's a part of every workday for most office workers, if not all of them. It's so ubiquitous, it can be tempting to slack off when it comes to writing and responding to email, and paying attention to what goes into those emails. After all, email is a response...
OSHA Penalties Increase in 2016
For the first time in 25 years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will increase fines for worker safety violations.The increase was part of a bipartisan budget deal signed in November 2015. It raises maximum penalties for worker injuries and deaths...