WRONGFUL TERMINATION LAWYER FOR HOURLY SANTA ANA EMPLOYEES

While the Employment Lawyers Group represents employees at all levels of pay, and terminations of employment affect terminated workers at all levels of pay, wrongfully terminated workers who are at the poverty level are at a high risk because they often lack savings and other resources to use while they are looking for their next job. In Orange County, households earning less than $80,000 a year are considered low income. The poverty rate in Orange County is close to 10%. The poverty rate in Santa Ana is approximately 11%. If you were fired for complaining about something illegal, or while engaging in protected activity such as a medical leave for pregnancy, disability, FMLA, or military obligations it may be important that you take legal action if you cannot afford to be without pay until you find another job, or your next job pays less. In other words, you need an an experienced employment lawyer for a wrongful termination case.

Low wage workers who are unjustly terminated, without warning, are not likely to have savings. Nor are wrongfully terminated workers, near poverty, likely to own a home without a mortgage. If their employer contests their unemployment insurance claim, the low wage worker without savings may have their electricity turned off when they cannot pay their electricity bill. An experienced employment lawyer like myself will know how to explain to a jury how having one’s electricity turned off, and facing actual or potential eviction, causes severe emotional distress. Emotional distress is an important item of damage in a lawsuit involving job termination.

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If you were wrongfully fired from your job, consult an experienced employment lawyer to determine what your items of damage might be in your wrongful termination lawsuit. The cost of moving may be an item of damage in an employment lawsuit. Damage to your credit, late fees, and interest on credit cards may be an item of damage in your employment lawsuit. The cost of finding a new job such as mailing resumes, driving to interviews, and paying a head hunter may be items of damage in your lawsuit involving the loss of your job.

Please contact our firm (714) 210-8000 if you believe you might have been illegally fired.