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Our legal system takes a dim view of employers who retaliate against employees who have complained of discrimination. Retaliation discourages employees from standing up to discrimination and weakens the effect of anti-discrimination laws. In this post, our Tampa retaliation lawyers at Florin Gray Bouzas Owens, LLC will explain what “retaliation” is in the eyes of the l...

Federal and state laws govern the payment of wages and overtime. If you are like many Florida employees, you assume that your employer knows the law better than you do, and that your employer is complying with the law and is accurately paying you what you are owed. As experienced Tampa wage and hour lawyers Florin Gray Bouzas Owens, LLC, we can tell you that assumption oft...

Have you ever looked at your paycheck (or that envelope of cash your employer pays you “under the table”) and thought, “This can’t be right”? Have you ever wondered whether your employer’s “no breaks” policy or other workday policy is legal? If so, you are not alone. As Tampa overtime lawyers, we regularly field questions from employees about wages, hours a...

Our Tampa work discrimination lawyers are sometimes asked whether employers are allowed to discriminate against people on the basis of their having criminal histories. If you have been charged with a crime, arrested for one or have a conviction in your past, you may have encountered problems with finding work. While no federal law prohibits employers from rejecting your a...