Atlanta Employment Lawyer Blog

Getting your wages garnished is an embarrassing situation, often made worse but at least a perceived threat of losing your job. While most employers know that they can’t threaten job loss if an employee’s wages are being garnished, that doesn’t stop many of them from making the garnishee’s life uncomfortable about the whole thing.

In fact, you cannot be fired from a job because someone has garnished your wages, although multiple garnishments may be a different story. You are protected by Title Three of the Consumer Credit Protection Act (CCPA).

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The U.S. Department of Labor recently updated its basic informational poster to reflect changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act, including the new military family leave entitlements enacted under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, as well as changes in the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), all of which took effect on January 16th.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.

You can view the new poster here:

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If you’ve recently lost your job, you’re not alone. Recent statistics from the Department of Labor on the level of weekly unemployment compensation claims reveal that the job market is a basket case these days, and that unemployment levels are soaring.

On August 7, the Labor Department announced that new applications for unemployment claims rose to 455,000—the highest level since March 2002. Although the number of new claims announced on August 21 fell to 432,000, claims have been above 400,000 for some time now, a level that most economists consider to be an indicator of recession.

If you’re one of the thousands of Americans who have recently lost their jobs, you don’t have to be just a statistic. Contact one of our employment attorneys to see if we can help you.

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Hi friends. We finally did it. Buckley & Klein, LLP has entered the 21st Century with its launch of the Atlanta Employment Lawyer Blog—a blog devoted to tracking developments in the world of labor and employment law. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on the latest trends in discrimination, harassment and wage and hour law, new employment cases and legislation, and other hot employment topics that we hope will be of interest to employees in Atlanta and throughout the state of Georgia.

Although our practice is focused on representing employees in employment discrimination, harassment, contract, tort, and overtime cases, we hope that all you employers out there will check out our blog from time to time. Yes, we’re tough employment attorneys, and we don’t hesitate to take our clients’ cases to court. But we’re also delighted when enlightened employers make the right choice and follow the law. So, if we can help educate employers to prevent employment problems from occurring, all the better.

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