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Mary Keating: There are State and Federal laws and sometimes local municipality laws that apply to employers of different sizes.
Rochelle Eisenberg: Typically large companies have more written rules than your smaller companies.
Mary Keating: And it the behooves you as an employer to get to know what it is that governs you because sometimes the sizes are smallest too. For example, my understanding in Washington DC, a company that employs two people is subject to all of the laws. Once you get past one, self-employment, you might be liable for any violations of the anti-discrimination laws. An employer with 50 or more employees within 75 mile radius is subject to the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act. And then at the low end, the Federal law is generally 15 for age discrimination, sex, race, religious discrimination.
Irwin Kramer: This doesn't mean that a smaller employer can get away with more, you still can't discriminate.
Mary Keating: It means if they are not subject to the administrative enforcement agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Federal Government.
Irwin Kramer: You can still get sued but more probably in State Court rather than Federal Court.
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