When to Hire an Employment Discrimination Attorney An employment discrimination attorney can help if someone believes they have been treated differently on the job because of certain characteristics, including their race, ethnicity, sex, religion, age, or disability. If your employer doesn’t like you and fires you, it isn’t necessarily actionable discrimination. To prove employment discrimination, the employee must show that their employer intended to treat them differently because of one of the characteristics. This intent can also be demonstrated if the employer has unfairly treated a lot of other workers with the same protected characteristic.
Most states and the federal …