Employment Law & Legal Counsel throughout Illinois
At Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C., we provide highly specialized and effective employment legal counsel and representation for Missouri and Illinois businesses and employees. Our firm will work to resolve problems and aggressively litigate employment law cases. We will begin by carefully examining the facts and circumstances of each particular situation.
As a growing, aggressive law firm, SBLS focuses on protecting the rights of individuals at the place they spend the majority of their days and nights - the workplace. At Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C., our goal is to protect employees from a workplace environment that does not comply with Federal, State and local employment law.
Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C. specializes in enforcing the rights of employees in an effort to preserve a fair, equal and just employment environment. The firm has significant experience representing plaintiffs in all phases of litigation. Our firm can handle matters in all of the following areas of employment law:
- Age discrimination and harassment
- Civil/Rights/Constitutional Law Claims
- Creed discrimination and harassment
- Marital status discrimination and harassment
- Defamation, Libel and slander
- Disability discrimination and harassment
- Employee Benefits
- Employer Preventative Measures
- Employment contracts
- Employment Discrimination
- Executive compensation
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Hostile work environment
- National origin discrimination and harassment
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- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Pregnancy discrimination and harassment
- Race discrimination and harassment
- Religious discrimination and harassment
- Retaliatory discharge or other retaliation
- Separation Agreements and Severance Packages
- Sexual Discrimination and Harassment
- Sexual identity discrimination and harassment
- Sexual orientation discrimination and harassment
- Wages and Benefits
- Whistleblower Protection
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
- Wrongful termination
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Compliance
Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C. is an employment defense firm that can represent, defend and educate employers and various business owners on legal guidelines and standards for running their business. Learn More >> |
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Employee Contracts & Handbooks
Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C. has significant experience in drafting and reviewing these policies and procedures governing such areas as harassment and discrimination, termination policies, drug testing, background checks, vacation time, sick leave, pre-employment testing and protection of trade secrets.
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Employee Benefits
The attorneys of Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C. will advise your company on employee hiring, discipline, termination, response to harassment, employee compensation and other benefits. Learn More >> |
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Employee Discrimination
Under the law, unfair treatment that is based on a characteristic, or special class protected by the federal and state nondiscriminatory laws, is illegal. At Sivia Business & Legal Services, P.C., our attorney’s represent clients in the prosecution and defense of employment discrimination actions. Learn More >> |
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Unemployment Defense
Unemployment fraud is defined as a former employee who willfully provides false information to receive employment benefits. Being charged with unemployment benefits fraud can lead to serious felony charges and in some cases lead to a permanent criminal record or jail time. Learn More >> |
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Retaliatory Discharge
As Section 4(h) of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act provides, "it shall be unlawful for any employer to coerce or discriminate against, harass, refuse to rehire or recall, fire or threaten to fire or force to resign" any worker in retaliation for filing a Workers' Compensation claim. Learn More >> |
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Workers Compensation Defense
Has the Workers' Compensation Board slapped you with a penalty? Did one of your employees file a workers' compensation claim against you? Does your company not carry workers' comp insurance? Do not delay. We are ready to protect you with high-caliber legal support. Learn More >> |
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