Legal Question in Employment Law in Florida

Do I have a case?

I am a current employee of this employer, and I have been suffering from many types of discrimination that most people would ignore, but after four and a half years of the same and recent events I would like to find out if I have a case. The following is a list of situations/events to consider:

� I was promised earnings up to $4K, which never happened

� No raise in 4 � years

� Negative decisions about me based on stereotypes

� Demotion

� Failure to promote

� Reduction in pay

� Discrimination by national origin

� Sexual harassment by offensive conduct and language

� Hostile work environment

� Not allow to take a lunch break must eat at my desk while others take �smoking� breaks that amount to over an hour a day. If I go out to lunch the boss gets hostile

� Employer now demands that I read all company emails on weekends and off hours

� Employer now assumes that I must be available all the time in case of system problems or to reset users to facilitate the accountants work from remote location on weekends and doesn�t appreciate my work during non-working hours

� Employees have no legal rights in this place

� Whistle blower- I openly condemn violations of the law like smoking indoors (my clothes and hair stinks!, hiring of illegal aliens, and more

� Was able to take a 2 weeks vacation last December, but has not been paid for due vacation from previous years. I used to work for companies who will pay for any unused compensation (vacation, sick days, etc) at the end of the year, but not sure if that�s valid anymore.

� My commission percentage was reduced without an explanation. Now the boss wants me to surrender my customers to someone else, but doesn�t want to talk about any adjustments to my income.

� I have never been promoted, but the people that started with me got promoted after getting the credit for all my work, even though they all knew it was my work. I do everything here or used to.

� The agreement when hired was not hourly; in fact the owner said he didn�t care about it as long as produced for the company. I have made millions for this company, but still making $2.4k average.

� Here is the bomber: the owner is openly gay and has surrounded himself with young men, some of them illegal aliens, and because I�m not gay, I believe I�m being pushed off and ignored.

� There is indoor smoking at the office with closed doors. I have openly complaint about it to no avail. Someone filed a complaint with environmental dept. or something like that, and I was immediately affected by the situation as someone created a personal problem for me by calling the department of child support and filing a false claim about me. I am a very private person, and the only place that has my personal information with such details is this office. I must mention that over the years I have seen a lady employee do the same to other people, but I guess she didn�t count on my memory of it. This one lady used to be the only employee until the current VP and I started working with the company. There are rumors about the sudden climb of this young man.

� There are constant insults and demeaning words for anything like: suck my dick, put it up your ass, fuck you, my ass, etc. The boss keeps saying I should quit. I don�t think he wants to fire me because I know too much about the company�s internal affairs and what may be considered illegal moves.

� The company was audited and fined in 2006.

� There are several illegal aliens employed by the company right now and many more in the past. He uses this helpless people to manipulate them due to theirs legal status. I guess he forgot that I�m not an illegal alien.

� In a nutshell, when it comes to me this is how it is �bad if yes, bad if no�. No matter what I do, everything is wrong.

I have a wife and two children; one at the university level and one just about to enter college. That�s why I�m still at this job. These are very difficult times, but recent insults are very hard to take anymore.

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