ORANGE COUNTY UNLAWFUL TERMINATION LAWYER

Orange County Unlawful Termination Lawyer is a professional law firm team in Orange County, There are many Orange County Unlawful Termination Lawyer at firms that represent employees against their employers but many of them do not offer free of charge consultations like SCMC Law Office does.  Unlawful Termination is an unfortunate yet frequent occurrence in today’s workforce.  Termination becomes wrongful when an employee is fired for an illegal reason.  An illegal reason for firing someone would be if they were fired because they belonged to a protected class.  Classes that are protected are gender, race, age, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ancestry, disability, marital status, medical condition, color, family and or medical leave, genetic characteristics, pregnancy, genetic information, ancestry, and national origin.

In California, there are many types of reasons for termination that would be considered as “unlawful” under state law, which would require an Orange County Unlawful Termination Lawyer.  Reasons that are considered to be illegal for termination would be race, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, medical condition, marital status, color, ancestry, and engagement in a protected activity.  Situations that involve termination based on one of the reasons listed previously would need to be reviewed by an attorney who practices employment law. By having an employment attorney review the details of the termination, they may be able to reach the conclusion of whether or not it is worth perusing and or if it was indeed an unlawful termination, to begin with.

ORANGE COUNTY UNLAWFUL TERMINATION LAWYER

Other common forms of unlawful termination are based on pregnancy leave, FMLA, a complaint pertaining to wage violations, complaining about sexual harassment, medical leaves, and requesting for reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability.  Many of these reasons for termination fall along the lines of retaliation.  Retaliation would be if an employee complaining about an illegal issue such as sexual harassment or discrimination and were soon after terminated.  The time frame, as well as the complaint itself, can lead to supporting evidence of a legitimate retaliation claim against the employer by the employee. Other issues can stem from retaliation, ultimately leading up to a forced resignation.  Possibly an employee may be threatened to resign or they would be fired.  Also, an employer may make an employee’s work environment so unbearable that they have no choice but to quit which may be categorized as harassment as well as retaliation.

It is common that an employee is not aware of their rights and are terminated based on an illegal reason.  In order to determine whether or not someone was fired for an illegal reason, the attorney may ask the employee an array of questions leading to a decision of whether or not to pursue the case.  The questions will have to do with deciding if the employee belongs to a protected class and if the behavior from the employer was discriminatory.  Discriminatory behavior may be comments made regarding the employee’s protected class, demoting an employee based on the protected class, treating them differently and singling them out based on them belonging to the class.  For example, if an employee had been working for a company for many years and suddenly was terminated after they reached the age of 50 and their employers began making comments about retirement and that the employee was “old”, that may show evidence of age discrimination.

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