Legal Question in Employment Law in New York

As a salary employee at a small company I was treated differently than my male colleagues. As a young woman I was expected to work different hours than older females with the same position as well as any male who held a salary position. I was sexual harassed by a male temporary employee and after I made a complaint which was verified and acknowledged he was given a permanent position with a higher salary than his temporary position. After seeing all of my fellow employees take several vacations during my two years of employment I was granted a vacation. I asked for 2 weeks, in some cases in comparison to other employees with salary this was a quarter of the vacations they had taken within the same amount of time. The vacation I asked for was less than that of the lowest hourly employee, everyone else in the company had received more vacation time. During my vacation I was fired because I did not come into work, though I did the work requested by the president of the company, "as a personal favor, not as part of your duties", from home. He took it as a personal insult that I said no driving to the office though it was unnecessary and did the work from home instead of driving the 1 hour commute. I returned from vacation 1 week early hearing of his dissatisfaction. My hours were increased by 10 per week, with mandatory Saturday's. Not only was this done without my conference, it was a breach of contract. I emailed the president and told him that I would be taking my second week of vacation. I was fired for taking my second week of vacation.

Please advise the best course of action in regards to this matter.

Thank you kindly I am a young woman and I am appalled at the amount of discrimination involved within the workplace. The president of the company lived next door to me and he would not even say hello when he saw me it is incredible!!! I worked with him for 2 years, I would spend 10 hours with him per day and after I got into my driveway it was as though I did not exist!.

Please advise,

Thank you,

Anastasia

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