Employment Law Hotline

Organization Details

Address:
301 W. Chesapeake Ave.,
Suite 201,
Towson,
MD,
21204
Phone
410-321-8761
Email:
admin@wlcmd.org
Organization Contact Email:
admin@wlcmd.org
Organization Contact Phone:
410-321-8761
Intake days/hours (by phone)
Tuesdays 9:30am – 1pm, First Thursday of the month 5pm–7:30pm
Advice/Help Hotline Phone
1-877-422-9500
Cost or fee (describe)
Free
Eligibility-residence-county
Statewide
Eligibility-income
Maryland Legal Services Corporation Guidelines
Program Description

The Employment Law Hotline allows you to talk to an experienced employment law attorney to learn about the law and your rights in the workplace. The Employment Law Hotline will answer questions about:

  • Discrimination in hiring, firing, promotions and other working conditions
  • Pay equity
  • Sexual harassment
  • Discrimination based on pregnancy
  • Family or medical leave issues
  • Unpaid wages
  • Contract issues
  • Minimum wage and overtime violations
  • Being punished by the employer for having acted together with other employees to improve working conditions
  • Issues related to immigrant and part-time workers
  • Eligibility for unemployment insurance

The Employment Law Hotline attorney will not represent you and will not review or draft any documents for you. The attorney may suggest self-help measures you can take. You may be referred to a social service or governmental agency for assistance.

Callers with viable cases may be referred to the Women’s Law Center’s employment law attorney referral panel. Additionally, you may be referred to a lawyer referral program that may be able to find you an attorney who will charge low or moderate fees.

The Employment Law Hotline answers questions from women and men about a wide range of employment law issues. However, the Women’s Law Center is especially interested in helping callers with problems that predominately impact women.

Employment
Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics
Se habla Español
Brief advice/Help with forms/Clinics
Is this legal advice?

This site offers legal information, not legal advice.  We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information and to clearly explain your options.  However we do not provide legal advice - the application of the law to your individual circumstances. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.  The Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, a court-related agency of the Maryland Judiciary, sponsors this site.  In the absence of file-specific attribution or copyright, the Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library may hold the copyright to parts of this website. You are free to copy the information for your own use or for other non-commercial purposes with the following language “Source: Maryland's People’s Law Library – www.peoples-law.org. © Maryland Thurgood Marshall State Law Library, 2024.”