Every day, there are hundreds of victims of wrongful termination in California. Most of these individuals are not even aware of the fact that they were terminated for the wrong reasons. All they know is that they have to move on and find another job, and only a few of them stop to ask questions about how and why they were terminated.
The first thing you should do is contact an attorney. If you don’t have one on speed dial, consider our best Los Angeles Wrongful Termination Attorneys. Schedule a free initial consultation and let our legal professionals decide whether or not you were wrongfully terminated. If found to be a victim of wrongful termination, here are your legal rights and what you can do after getting wrongfully terminated.
Collecting Evidence
The first thing you should do is collect all the evidence that may imply that your termination was illegal.
There are several steps, and all of them consist of checking every option in order to determine whether your employer had the right to fire you. Several questions have to be answered:
- Were you fired while on a sick leave?
- Were you fired on your day off?
- Were you disobeying your work duties?
- Were you discriminated against, or discriminating someone else?
- Were you sexually harassed?
- Were you a victim of retaliation?
- Whistleblowing?
The next is checking your communication with your employer. This usually involves all correspondence between you and your employer in the past 6 months, any verbal exchange that can be confirmed by a witness, and anything that may put your employer under the spotlight of suspicion. Once your attorney collects enough evidence to prove that you are wrongfully terminated, the next thing is filling a wrongful termination claim against your employer.
A Victim of Discrimination
The most common scenario is discrimination. There are many types of workplace discrimination; the most common ones involve:
- Sexual discrimination
- Age discrimination
- Sexual orientation discrimination
- Pregnancy discrimination
- Gender discrimination
- Race discrimination
- National origin discrimination
- Religious discrimination
- Disability discrimination
- Marriage discrimination
- Genetic information discrimination
- Political orientation discrimination
If you believe that you were a victim of any of the above-mentioned types of discrimination, you have every right to sue your employer for discrimination the workplace, wrongful termination and potential retaliation (if you lost your job after complaining to your superiors about the workplace discrimination).
When everything is taken into consideration, our Wrongful Termination Attorneys in Los Angeles will carefully calculate the damages that you have sustained, and file a wrongful termination claim against your employer. If found guilty, your employer will have to compensate you for everything that you have been through from the moment you lost your job. This involves:
- Lost wages
- Pain and suffering
- Lost benefits
