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California’s law protects employees not only from so-called ultimate employment actions such as termination or demotion, but also from any adverse employment action – i.e. the entire range of employment actions that are likely to have a substantial negative impact on an employee’s job or career.

Although offensive or rude comments or even repeated social …

Severance pay is an extra amount paid to an employee upon the ending of the employee’s employment in addition to wages due, vacation pay, or bonus owed to the employee. In California there is no legal requirement to provide severance pay to an employee unless the employer agreed to pay it.

Sometimes an employer knows it is wrong to fire an employee, so the employer makes the employee so miserable that the employee has no other choice but to quit. In those cases, the employer has constructively terminated the employee. The law treats employees who have been constructively terminated as though they had been fired …

An employee is wrongfully terminated if he or she is fired for an illegal reason. The reason may be illegal because it violates an established law or because the firing goes against a public policy.

A firing may constitute a wrongful termination because it violates the law prohibiting discrimination based on protected classes. Even if …