Zachary J. Liszka is an employee rights lawyer living in Brooklyn, New York.
He is a white-passing Alaska Native (Unangax̂) enrolled with the federally recognized Ninilchik Village Tribe.
He has endured hemiparesis since childhood and has faced employment discrimination on that basis (see charge of discrimination).
He has also endured working at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, as a bagger at a supermarket, as a dish washer, as a day laborer, as a bartender, as a line cook, a telephonic credit union teller, and as a high school teaching assistant.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Alaska and a Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Litigation from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
He is an active member of a small group of employee-focused lawyers called NELA-NY where he served as an editor of the New York Employee Advocate.
In 2011, he served as an NLG Legal Observer at the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and never looked back.
PHOTO BY DAVID MINDEL
Notable Cases
MONTALVO v. FLYWHEEL SPORTS, INC. (read complaint)(court filings)
Mr. Liszka participated in the representation of journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg, among others who sought to enjoin the executive branch from enforcing its ability to detain and convict them without due process.
Mr. Liszka filed claims against local restaurant alleged to have stiffed its immigrant worker out of wages. Meanwhile, the restaurant was gaining publicity for printing on their customer receipts “Immigrants Make America Great (they also cooked your food and served you today).”
VAZQUEZ v. ACORN STAIRLIFTS, INC. (read complaint)(court filings)
Mr. Liszka filed a class action against one of the largest stairlift sellers in the world whose policies were alleged to have disproportionately affected disabled employees in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the New York City Human Rights Law.
AHAMED v. 563 MANHATTAN INC. (read complaint)(court filings)
Mr. Liszka filed claims against owner of local chain of coffeeshops alleged to have repeatedly harassed a barista in an unwanted sex-based manner under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York City Human Rights Law.
ISK BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY LLC v. MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC (read complaint)(court filings)
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
—Eugene V. Debs, Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sediation Act, September 18, 1918
PHOTO BY DAVID MINDEL
Zachary J. Liszka is an employee rights lawyer in Brooklyn, New York. He is a white-passing Alaska Native (Unangax̂) enrolled with the federally recognized Ninilchik Village Tribe.
He has endured hemiparesis since childhood and has faced employment discrimination on that basis (see charge of discrimination).
He has also endured working at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, as a bagger at a supermarket, as a dish washer, as a day laborer, as a bartender, as a line cook, a telephonic credit union teller, and as a high school teaching assistant.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Alaska and a Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Litigation from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
He is an active member of a small group of employee-focused lawyers called NELA-NY where he served as an editor of the New York Employee Advocate. In 2011, he served as an NLG Legal Observer at the OWS encampment in Zuccotti Park and has never looked back.
Notable Cases
Mr. Liszka filed a class action against a nationwide indoor cycling chain on behalf of more than 600 class instructors who accused the chain of failing to pay their proper wages under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the New York Labor Law.
Mr. Liszka, along with co-counsel, filed an action to intervene on behalf of indigenious water protectors at Standing Rock who accused Donald Trump, in his individual capacity, of unconstitutionally aiding the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
HEDGES v. OBAMA (lower court order)(order on appeal)
Mr. Liszka participated in the representation of journalist Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg, among others who sought to enjoin the executive branch from enforcing its ability to detain and convict them without due process.
Mr. Liszka filed charges against local restaurant alleged to have stiffed its immigrant worker out of wages. Meanwhile, the restaurant was gaining publicity for printing on their customer receipts “Immigrants Make America Great (they also cooked your food and served you today).”
VAZQUEZ v. ACORN STAIRLIFTS, INC. (read complaint)(court filings)
Mr. Liszka filed a class action against one of the largest stairlift sellers in the world whose alleged nationwide policies disproportionately affected disabled employees in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, and the New York City Human Rights Law.
AHAMED v. 563 MANHATTAN INC. (read complaint)(court filings)
Mr. Liszka filed claims against owner of local chain of coffeeshops alleged to have repeatedly harassed a barista in an unwanted sex-based manner under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New York City Human Rights Law.
ISK BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY LLC v. MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC (read complaint)(court filings)
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“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
—Eugene V. Debs, Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sediation Act, September 18, 1918
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