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There are many protections in place for workers when it comes to being fired from their job. It is important for a stable and successful society for employees to have some degree of job security. Therefore, while it is still possible to get fired from your place of...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has laws that state that it is not permissible for employers to punish job applicants or employees for certain reasons. These reasons can include discrimination and harassment against an applicant or employee. This...
Last week, a 28-year-old Google employee, graduate of Harvard's doctorate program in systems biology, wrote a memo about his opinions on gender diversity at the company. The memo enraged many of his colleagues and the wider audience that read his post. The memo,...
Your company has a dress code, but you don't agree with it. You decide not to adhere to it, get a warning and then eventually get fired when you continue breaking it. Is this legal? It is, in many cases, but the specifics are important. The Equal Employment...
our boss calls you into his or her office and tells you that you're being fired, effective immediately. You're instantly furious, because you think it's not just unfair, but illegal. Maybe you recently filed a sexual harassment complaint, for instance, and you believe...
Michael Trimble's employer had a so-called simple request: Please carry your bicycle up the back stairs instead of bringing it through the main lobby of the corporate office building. When he said he couldn't do that, his employer tried a different request: Please...
A retaliatory termination is just one type of wrongful termination. It may be illegal, it may violate your rights as a worker in California, and you need to know what legal options you have. So, why does a retaliatory termination happen? There can be many reasons, but...
Many workers are hired on an at-will basis, meaning they have no contract and can be fired -- or can quit -- without a reason. This can't be done illegally, of course, meaning that workers can't be fired based on ethnicity, gender, or other protected classes. However,...
You get fired, and you think it was because of something you said on the job. As such, you instantly think it's a wrongful termination. After all, doesn't the First Amendment to the Constitution give you the right to free speech, automatically protecting you from...
Marijuana is now legal in small amounts for recreational use. However, your company may have had a strict no-drug policy from the days before Proposition 64. If they fire you, is it a wrongful termination since you weren't breaking the law, or can the company let you...
