Wrongful Termination

A wrongful termination trial is beginning in California. In this suit, a former firefighter has sued his former employer claiming that he was wrongfully terminated after he fought to expose a sex scandal within the department. According to the suit, the 45-year-old...

In California, most employees are at will employees. Therefore, unless an employer gives their employees a day off, the workers can be fired for not showing up to work. There are, however, a few employment laws that protect workers under certain circumstances. If an...

Over the last few years, many companies have had to lay off employees because of the difficult economy. While generally theses layoffs are legal -- since under California employment laws most employees are considered at will employees -- some may not have been. In one...

Most employees understand that they are not free to say or do anything that they would like on the job. Most employees are at-will, and therefore under employee laws can be terminated for almost any reason. However, there are instances where employees need to speak up...

Employers do not have the right to punish employees for reporting safety violations or other illegal activity. Employment laws protect whistleblower employees -- or at least they are supposed to -- by making it illegal to retaliate against a whistleblower.Recently, a...

A California property owners association has recently been sued for wrongful termination for the second time in six months. In the first suit, the former employee claimed that she was terminated because of her age and her race. Under California employee laws,...

A California man is suing his former employer after being let go from his job as a hospital manager. According to the man, his former employer, the Glendale Adventist Medical Center, broke employment laws by firing him for statements he made in a letter to the editor...

A Los Angeles court recently held that a former model is entitled to damages for wrongful termination and pregnancy discrimination. The model had worked for the television show "The Price is Right." She claims that the production company responsible for managing the...

A Los Angeles judge is apparently signaling that he will rule in favor of an employer in a wrongful termination suit. He is expected to decide that employment laws did not actually protect an employee who claims to have been fired because of his religious views.In the...

In most cases, California workers are at-will employees. This means that they can be terminated from their jobs without cause at any time. Employers are generally under no obligation to explain their decision or to give notice that the employee is going to be let go....