Legal Protection For Workers
It's something many California parents undoubtedly have done: sell a few boxes of their daughters' Girl Scout cookies. But for one mother, the effort to help her daughter earn badges and raise money for trips resulted in the loss of her job. The woman, who worked for...
A woman is claiming she was fired from her position with a California college after she became pregnant. Up until last October, the woman was employed as a financial aid specialist by San Diego Christian College. After stories began circulating campus that the...
When someone is fired for a reason that seems unfair, his or her first reaction may be to sue the former employer for wrongful discharge. But upon further review, the discharged employee may be surprised to learn that he or she does not have a viable claim of wrongful...
Yet another Kaiser Permanente Hospital has come under fire for its employment practices. As we reported in a recent blog post, the health care consortium was named as a defendant in 46 employment-related lawsuits in 2012. Now, a nurse has made a claim of wrongful...
A former employee of a Kaiser Permanente hospital claims she was fired for reporting sexual harassment and for taking medical leave to care for her sick spouse. The woman's wrongful termination lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, marks the 46th time the...
The Ventura County Medi-Cal system is facing a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by two former employees of the Gold Coast Health Plan. The lawsuit alleges an antagonistic work environment where financial mismanagement, harassment and retaliation were widespread....
A California jury has awarded a former model on "The Price Is Right" game show punitive damages of $7.7 million for pregnancy discrimination and wrongful termination. The woman, who appeared on the show for seven years prior to the birth of her twins, already had been...
In one of the largest jury awards in the history of Madera County, California, a former prison doctor who lost his job seven years ago received $3.3 million in damages for wrongful termination. The jury found the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation...
A California jury took less than a day in deliberations to reach a verdict in favor of a Hollywood visual effects worker who was wrongfully fired by Ascent Media Group. The man, who was discharged after he saw a company executive using cocaine in the men's room and...
A former swimming coach and employee of a California swim club recently sued the club and its head coach for wrongful termination. The employee claims that she was fired because she repeatedly reported instances of inappropriate behavior on the part of a volunteer...
