Wrongful Termination Attorney

A wrongful termination attorney is an individual specializing in employment law and other issues surrounding illegal or unethical firings of an employee or employees. Wrongful termination lawyers, along with their ex-employee clients, are afforded numerous legal protections per federal law, which prohibit employers from firing an individual on grounds based in discrimination. Potential avenues of illegal discrimination can include items such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, medical status, HIV/AIDS status, age, and other items in some jurisdictions. In addition, employees are protected from termination by their employers for reporting potentially illegal, unethical, or discriminatory practices to the EEOC, OSHA, or other government entities. However, employers are free to terminate an employee that files an erroneous or unfounded complaint with no legal complications in most cases. Essentially, if an employee is terminated due to exercising a legally protected right or attempting to retain a legal right in the workplace, this firing contains grounds for wrongful termination suits.

Fast Facts

  • Pregnancy discrimination in wrongful termination accounts for nearly six percent of claims filed with the EEOC
  • In the fiscal year of 2008, the EEOC fielded over 95,000 discrimination complaints

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  • When Unfair Termination is a Wrongful Termination in California

    Anyone doing research on the web will find an endless number of articles about Wrongful Termination laws in an...
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  • Wrongful Termination: Do I have a Case?

    A wrongful termination is a termination that occurs with no legitimate or valid reason.  Although it’s hard to...
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  • Avoiding Wrongful Termination

    Wrongful termination is defined as the action of firing an employee without a proven and legitimate cause.  So...
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  • Employment Law: Wrongful Termination

    According to the United States Department of Labor in 2008, there are were 154 million employed American worke...
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  • When Is Termination Wrongful?

    Wrongful termination is defined as the unlawful firing of a company’s employee(s) for various reasons......
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