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Miami Employment Lawyers Near Me Publish Article on Florida Filing Deadlines
Miami Employment Lawyers Jason D. Berkowitz and Anisley Tarragona of BT Law Group, PLLC have published an article examining how Florida's overlapping employment filing deadlines quietly determine whether workplace claims ever reach a hearing.
The Miami Employment Lawyers at BT Law Group, PLLC designed the article to address a problem they see repeatedly: workers who hold strong claims but lose them to the calendar. The piece explains that most discrimination and retaliation matters in Florida are governed by two systems at once, a federal track running through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with a 300-day deadline and a state track running through the Florida Commission on Human Relations with a 365-day deadline. Because those windows run at the same time and expire on different days, an employee who assumes a full year may have already forfeited federal claims without realizing it.
According to the Miami Employment Lawyers behind the article, the danger does not end once a charge is filed. The piece details how a right-to-sue letter can leave a worker only 90 days to file in federal court, a window so short that many people let it pass while treating the letter as good news. The article also clarifies that at-will employment, often cited by employers as a shield, does not permit terminations rooted in discrimination, retaliation, or the breach of a written employment agreement.
The firm intends the article to give readers practical footing before they ever speak with counsel. It walks through the role of the Charge of Discrimination as the true starting point for most cases, the difference between the shorter discrimination deadlines and the longer windows that govern wage and hour claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the steps workers can take to preserve evidence such as pay stubs, emails, and performance reviews while their options remain open.
"Time is the factor people understand the least and regret the most," said Jason D. Berkowitz. "We wanted to put the deadlines in plain language so that workers act while they still have every door open to them, rather than discovering too late that one of those doors quietly closed."
Anisley Tarragona added that the firm's perspective comes from years on the other side of these disputes. "We spent years advising companies, so we know how quickly an employer's defense takes shape. The sooner a worker understands the timeline, the better positioned they are to protect what the law actually gives them."
The article concludes by mapping how a single situation can carry several deadlines running at different speeds, and why charting all of them early is the surest way to keep a strong claim alive in Miami.
About BT Law Group, PLLC
BT Law Group, PLLC is a South Florida employment law firm founded by Jason D. Berkowitz and Anisley Tarragona, who together bring more than 30 years of combined experience in labor and employment law. Before establishing the firm, both attorneys represented management at a national labor and employment defense firm, a background that informs their advocacy for employees today. The firm concentrates on wrongful termination, workplace discrimination, disability discrimination and failure to accommodate, sexual harassment, retaliation and whistleblower matters, wage and hour disputes, and family medical leave claims. Its attorneys have earned recognition including listings in Best Lawyers in America and on the Florida Super Lawyers list, and they serve clients in both English and Spanish.
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