Amanda Farahany is regularly sought out by the media to comment on issues regarding employees and as an advocate for women's issues. What To Do When Losing Your Job, CBS Atlanta – 2009 Attorney Amanda A. Farahany was recently featured on CBS Atlanta News to reveal a Survival Guide for 24 Hours After Losing your Job: Watch Part 1 and Part 2. A Rash of Problems Over Job References, National Law Journal, March 2008 The National Law Journal reported that employers are increasingly landing in court over job references. Some employers are requiring waivers from potential applicants. The National Law Journal interviewed Amanda A. Farahany about her experience with both waivers and the employment cases arising from references. . The trouble with keeping mum But limiting reference information can lead to trouble as well. Farahany noted that the say-nothing approach has led to more sexual harassment lawsuits in the workplace. Previous employers are being sued for not disclosing an employee's sexual harassment history, while new employers are getting sued for hiring a person with a troubled past. Farahany is currently involved in that kind of a case against two employers. She is representing the plaintiff who is suing a Georgia school district for giving a positive reference for a teacher who had a criminal conviction and went on to teach at another school, where the teacher allegedly raped a student. "It's an employer's duty to provide a safe workplace," Farahany said. "When we hire, that's what we do. We get a waiver from the individual and we contact every employer. Some employers have refused to talk to us without the waiver," said Amanda Farahany, an employee rights attorney at Atlanta's Barrett & Farahany. May 2007 In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams discusses campus crimes, referring specially to the work of Barrett & Farahany in the past. "Atlanta lawyer Amanda Farahany was hired several years ago by a student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia who was allegedly raped on campus but could not get the police to prosecute because the school would not cooperate and turn over incident reports and other findings. Farahany discovered firsthand while representing this student that statistics provided in the campus crime log didn't match the school's crime reports. “We know that one in four college women are a victim of sexual assault. When universities are reporting zero rapes on campus, we know that just isn't possible,” Farahany said, citing several surveys, including a 1991 study of 7,000 college students by researchers Mary Koss and Mary Harvey. The point is that we have some work to do." See entire article at: ABC News, May 9, 2006 Yale Student: School Didn't Keep Me Safe ABC News requests that Ms. Farahany, who specializes in representing victims of sexual assault on campus, comment on the recent filing of a lawsuit against Yale University. d Ohio University deserves praise for encouraging rape reporting, The Athens News, January 27, 2005 Your Job and the Law, LawCall, ABC 22, December 5, 2004 Is Your Employer Playing by the Overtime Rules?, Monster, September 2004 How Will the New Overtime Rules Affect You? Workforce Management and Monster, August 2004 Crime Victims Fight Back with Lawsuits, Lawyers Weekly, August 16, 2004 Overtime Pain and Gain, Workforce Management, April 2004 Jesus in America, U.S. News and World Report, December 2003 What To Do When You Are Fired, Layman's Lawyer, WPBA TV Channel 30, Atlanta, GA 2002 |
