Employee rights for wrongful termination are generally governed by both state and federal employment laws.
Additionally, union contracts, employment contracts and employee handbooks often provide additional rights to challenge wrongful termination.
Federal and state laws dealing with wrongful discharge generally prohibit discrimination in employment based upon race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability or union activity. For further Discrimination information refer to our Discrimination Page.
Evidence of illegal discrimination includes discriminatory statements such as racial, sexist, ageist remarks.
In addition, where employees are treated differently in their employment, and there is no legitimate business reason for that difference in treatment, the difference in treatment may be evidence of illegal discrimination based upon some protected trait such as race, gender or age.
In the case of, Dawnmarie Souza, a paramedic for American Medical Response of Connecticut Inc., was fired after calling her supervisor a “scumbag” on Facebook, from her home computer. Ms. Souza was unhappy the supervisor had questioned her about a customer complaint, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) investigation. The NLRB’s complaint on …
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