Southern California Employment Lawyer
While Southern California is often known famously as the home of the lawsuit - where everyone seems to be screaming "sue" into their cell phones - it is also a place where other court cases happen, including those related to employment law.
For an employee or employer who feels that the sometimes unwritten contract between these two roles has been breached - that someone's rights have been violated - hiring a Southern California employment lawyer may be the only way for the situation to be straightened out, and for justice to be dealt.
While it is true that the contract between employer and employee is often left unwritten, US federal and state law provides a detailed list of the rights that an employer cannot ignore. Among these rights is the right to know why you have been terminated, and for that reason to be a valid one and not based on prejudice or something equally underhanded. With a Southern California employment lawyer on your side, any violation of rights can be brought up in court, and hopefully redressed.
When a friend of mine was working in a small photo development lab in Los Angeles, she attempted to develop a union with her fellow workers, so that they could fight for better pay and benefits. When they fired her, they listed a number of reasons that did not fit her profile: that she came late, was unproductive, etc. The fact of the matter was that she had an immaculate attendance and performance record, and her employers had fired her for trying to unionize the company. She hired a Southern California employment lawyer immediately upon being notified of her release.
Because it is illegal to fire employees from attempting to unionize in the United States, her company was forced to pay her for months of work that she hadn't done, and provide for other benefits in the form of unemployment. With the help of an employment lawyer, she was able to take the criminals to task, and make them pay. If your rights have been violated, find a good attorney and the courts may work just as well for you.
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