Rancho Cucamonga employment lawyers know that for most people, work ethic is important. Rancho Cucamonga employment litigation lawyers also know, however, that life circumstances sometimes get in the way of your ability to do your best. For example, if one of your parents requires kidney dialysis or maybe your child…
Discrimination can happen anywhere. Most commonly it happens in the workplace — people may be hired or fired not based on their abilities or work performance, but based on race, sexual preference, disability, national origin or other factors. Those are unlawful reasons to fire someone or not hire someone. And…
A case out of Puerto Rico recently shows the challenge that persons with disabilities have at work as well as trying to show they have faced discrimination in the workplace. In Ramos-Echevarria v. Pichis Inc., a worker who suffers from epilepsy claimed that his employer discriminated against him because he…
A federal judge recently ruled that Mexican fast food chain Taco Bell violated both federal and California laws protecting the disabled from discrimination at its restaurants, the Associated Press reports. While this ruling is based on customer complaints, the same goes for employees at companies where they don’t provide the…
A wrongful termination lawsuit in Los Angeles has been filed by the former spokesman for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Our San Bernardino wrongful termination attorneys fight for the rights of clients who have been unjustly terminated from their jobs. In many cases, including those where tenure, or a…
An employment lawsuit in Los Angeles has been filed against a clothing company, alleging disability discrimination. The Mercury News reports that the
In the case of Nadaf-Rahrov v. Neiman Marcus 166 Cal.App.4th at 952, a California Court of Appeal reversed the trial judge’s decision which had held that an employer “was not required to wait indefinitely for [the employee’s] medical condition to improve” so that she could perform an available job. Plaintiff…