Recoveries

Employment Law and Work Benefits

  • Confidential settlement recovery for White firefighter Captain candidates who were denied promotion because of alleged racial bias occurring during oral testing process.
  • Confidential recovery for city personnel manager denied promotion based on gender stereotyping.
  • Reinstatement for promotions for 14 firefighter officers after union litigation resulted in dismissal of their grievances and mandamus action (brought by union) which sought reinstatement.
  • $400,000.00 recovery to furniture laborers who filed wage and medical claims against their bankrupt employer, put out of business after a takeover. The majority of the proceeds were paid by the successor company officers.
  • $75,000.00 recovery for a non-profit agency worker as repayment of wages and loans to the agency, paid through the bankruptcy court.
  • $42,724.68 recovery for vacation pay for workers whose employer closed its plant and reopened another in a different state under a different name and entity.
  • Injunction verdict for a Philadelphia Firefighter candidate left behind on an expiring civil service list for promotion to fire lieutenant. The Court ordered the City to promote the firefighter to fire lieutenant.
  • $30,000.00 paid to workers whose cars needed paint or detailing because of factory emissions.
  • $27,000.00 judgment for workers whose cars needed paint or detailing because of factory emissions.
  • $12,500.00 recovery for Fire Lieutenants forced to retake a promotional civil service examination.
  • Recovered alcoholic hired to be a paramedic after being denied this position by the Fire Commissioner.
  • 52-year-old man hired to be a firefighter after being rejected by the Fire Commissioner.
  • Abolishment of 40-year maximum age limit by City of Philadelphia Fire Department per PHRC Order with hiring of 7 firefighter candidates with payment of settlement.
  • PHRC Ordered damages (back pay) for fire fighter candidate denied employment on account of his age.