San Jose Disability Discrimination Lawyer

Experienced disability discrimination attorneys at Eisenberg & Associates stand ready for San Jose employees whose physical or mental disability, medical condition, or perceived disability led to unfair treatment at work.

What Disability Discrimination
Looks Like at Work

It is disability discrimination when an employer puts an employee or job applicant at a disadvantage because of a disability, medical condition, or perceived disability.

Employees who have physical or mental disabilities are widely protected under California law, and workers in San Jose are no exception. As a rule, employers with at least five employees come under the state’s anti-discrimination law. When the law demands it, those employers must provide reasonable accommodations too.

It isn’t always obvious when it’s happening.

Seldom does an employer announce, “We’re terminating you over your disability.”

Things that may stand out:

  • Your manager’s attitude toward your work sours without explanation.
  • A conversation about your health condition is followed shortly by your termination, a case for California wrongful termination lawyers.
  • Right after you request an accommodation, your assigned hours are changed.
  • Your employer promotes someone else, expecting your disability to affect your work.
  • After you return from medical leave, you’re treated differently than before.
  • Remarks about your disability from your employer leave you feeling belittled.

Every situation has its own facts. Our San Jose disability discrimination attorney will review what happened and help you determine whether unlawful discrimination may be involved.

Practical Help From Our San Jose Disability Discrimination Lawyers

What to do next is a hard question when discrimination over a disability puts your job, income, and future at stake.

Serving San Jose, our disability discrimination attorneys at Eisenberg & Associates listen to your story, review the facts, and lay out your legal options in plain terms.

Situations our disability discrimination lawyers may help with:

Reasonable accommodation, where the law requires it, comes in several forms, California’s Civil Rights Department says: changes to job duties, schedules, work locations, or equipment, and medical leave. Employers are also expected to take part, in a timely and good-faith way, in the interactive process when accommodation may be needed.

Eisenberg & Associates can help with your rights, the accommodations you may qualify to request, and the steps available when an employer won’t cooperate.

How Eisenberg & Associates Approaches Employee Cases

A Practice Built on Employment Law

Employees up against workplace discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and other job problems are who Eisenberg & Associates represents through its employment law practice. No need to learn every legal rule first, even if the law seems tangled.

Disability Cases, Closely Examined

Employers sometimes cite a different reason for what happened, which is why disability discrimination can be hard to pin down. Our review takes in the whole story, including events before and after you disclosed your disability or asked for an accommodation.

Payment Follows a Recovery

We handle qualifying cases on a contingency fee basis through our disability discrimination attorneys. Legal fees are owed only if we obtain a recovery for you. Details of the fee arrangement for your case are yours to ask about.

Heard Before Anything Else

We make time to learn about your workplace situation, look through the information you have, and explain the legal options that may be available. You deserve to be heard.

Free Case Review

If you believe your employer treated you unfairly because of a disability, medical condition, or perceived disability, you can call Eisenberg & Associates at (213) 201-9331 or fill out our contact form to tell us what happened.

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Why It Matters
to Us

Your job should not be threatened by a disability. When unfair treatment based on a disability or medical condition occurs, you may have rights under California law.

A Patient Ear

Workplace discrimination brings stress and confusion with it. First we listen to your account, then we put your options in everyday language.

Protecting What the Law Protects

Employees with disabilities have protection under state law, which may include a right to reasonable accommodations. Eisenberg & Associates works to protect those rights if an employer does not honor them.

A Name, Not a Number

Reaching out to Eisenberg & Associates gives you the chance to explain your situation to our legal team, who can help you see what may come next. You are not a case number.

Areas We Serve

Disability discrimination can happen anywhere in California. Eisenberg & Associates represents employees in employment law matters across the state.

Los Angeles

Our headquarters. We serve thousands of employees across Los Angeles County fighting for

Riverside

Providing experienced employment law representation throughout the Inland Empire

Long Beach

Dedicated to protecting Long Beach employees from workplace discrimination and

San Jose

Serving Silicon Valley workers with expert employment law counsel for tech and corporate

Get Answers From Our San Jose Disability Discrimination Lawyer

Having a disability should not mean automatically losing your job, income, or opportunities.

Eisenberg & Associates can review your situation if an employer treated you differently because of a disability, denied a reasonable accommodation, declined to talk through your needs, fired you, or retaliated after you complained.

You don’t need to know whether you have a case before you call.

Call Eisenberg & Associates at (213) 201-9331 or fill out the contact form to schedule a free, confidential consultation.

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Answers to What Workers Wonder

Is disability discrimination work that Eisenberg & Associates takes on?

It is. Eisenberg & Associates represents employees in disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, retaliation, and wrongful termination matters, along with related workplace disputes.

What now if my accommodation request was rejected?

Covered employers generally must provide reasonable accommodation for qualifying disabilities unless undue hardship results, and may have to take part in a timely, good-faith interactive process, the Civil Rights Department states. Eisenberg & Associates can review your request and your employer’s reply.

Can I have a claim if I still have my job?

Yes. Depending on the facts, a denied promotion, cut hours, demotion, refused accommodation, harassment, or retaliation may qualify as discrimination too.

Is retaliation possible after I ask for an accommodation?

Employees may have legal protection from retaliation for protected activity, depending on the circumstances. If treatment gets worse, keep records and consider talking with our San Jose disability discrimination lawyer.