Employment disputes range from the termination of an employee to the theft of a worker’s wages – such as unpaid overtime, illegal deductions from checks, payment of less than the minimum wage, or misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor.
Tim Phillips has more than 15 years of experience representing dozens of employees in cases involving discrimination, whistleblowing, sexual harassment, and unpaid wages. For example, Tim represented the whistleblower in a successful case where a company agreed to pay nearly $1.3 million to settle allegations related to falsifying quality test results on government-funded road paving projects in Minnesota from 2017 to 2022. Earlier in his career, Tim also filed a successful disability discrimination lawsuit on behalf of a man with psoriasis, who had been fired because he could not comply with his employer’s no-beard policy.
As to the termination of someone’s employment, Tim has often represented workers who have been retaliated against for: