Being terminated from a job has to be one of the hardest things that can happen in a person's career. It's hard under any circumstances, but when an employee feels that they have been wrongfully terminated, it's even worse. Unless blatant, wrongful termination is difficult to prove and requires the employee to document as much...

Despite what many employers seem to think, drug testing employees is not free for all they would like it to be.  Employers are quite limited in when they can request drug tests for employees.WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN OFFERED A JOBAn employer may require suspicionless drug testing as a condition when they offer you a job before you...

Wrongful termination occurs when an employer-employee relationship is ended by an employer who violates an employee's legal rights. According to California law, such a situation may arise when an employer breaches a state or federal law, general principles of public policy, the employee's contract or some other element of the law. The state of California provides...

A Riverside County Superior Court jury awarded a former employee of Costco a sizeable settlement for his disability discrimination and wrongful termination claims.Jose A. Rivera worked for Costco in 2012. He was a forklift operator who took multiple medical leaves to treat shoulder, knee, and back injuries. At the end of his tenure, Rivera was investigated and...

A Los Angeles jury awarded over $1 million in damages to a former Merle Norman Cosmetics employee for finding that the company retaliated against her after she reported its two top officers for sexual harassment allegedly making sexually offensive remarks to her and a co-worker.The victim, Stephanie Kelley, said that she initially felt comfortable...