An Employment Lawyer for West Virginians
Rich Walters is a West Virginia lawyer who helps individuals and businesses with employment law issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour disputes, and more.
Rich has 28 years of experience practicing law.
He has secured multiple million-dollar awards for clients, including a $25 million jury verdict.
Rich also serves as municipal court judge for the City of Nitro, West Virginia. He has served in that role since 2010.
In his employment law work, he helps people who have been unlawfully mistreated in their jobs.
Many of his clients have lost jobs through no fault of their own and because of discrimination. Often, it’s a family’s sole breadwinner, and the wrongful termination pushes the family into a financial crisis.
“Helping individuals overcome discrimination and restore not just their ability to earn and provide for their family, but also their sense of pride, is very rewarding,” Rich said.
As an employment law attorney, he also helps businesses and non-profit organizations meet state and federal labor laws and regulations.
That includes rules from the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), the West Virginia Human Rights Commission (HRC) and more.
It can be extremely challenging for companies to comply with all the requirements of this “alphabet soup” of agencies, Rich says. And that’s where he helps.
Rich was the first person in his family to attend college. Now his daughter is a doctor in Las Vegas, Nevada, and his son, Ryan Walters, is another attorney at Shaffer & Shaffer.
With offices in Charleston and Madison, Shaffer & Shaffer has been helping people in West Virginia for more than 100 years. In addition to employment law, our West Virginia lawyers can help you with personal injury and Social Security Disability claims.
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