July 22, 2019
Legal Team
Does it seem like your boss is always picking on you? For some reason, you get written up for things that your co-workers do without consequence? Maybe your supervisor never approves your vacation time requests? Or do you feel like you were passed over for a promotion, though you were the most qualified candidate?...
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July 21, 2019
Legal Team
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...
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July 6, 2019
Legal Team
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...
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June 25, 2019
Legal Team
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...
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June 9, 2019
Legal Team
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...
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