Employment

72-year-old woman works screening blood donors, is told she must stand rather than sit because her duties changed.

State of California employee of 20 years says he was subject to abusive, retaliatory treatment after he requested medical leave, leading to his premature retirement. State says he had been accruing paid leave over many years that he was not entitled to.

Vault teller for restaurant supply company is fired after he is asked to return to work early from surgery and requests certain accommodations.

In a retrial of a case first tried in 2018, a cancer specialist at UCLA says that she was paid less than male counterparts and that they discriminated against her.

Twelve-year employee says supervisor sexually harassed her for five years, but the City took no action after its investigation and retaliated against plaintiff.

Zurich American Insurance says three veteran worker's comp claims managers "stole time" from the company by not reporting time off they had taken.

Long-time high school safety officer complains about other school staffers' behavior, is later fired.

Recently hired mechanic for City of Santa Ana takes time off for firefighting duties with National Guard while still in his probationary period with the City. He is later fired.

Middle school teacher says students' caricatures of him were violent and hate-filled. These images featured bloody bullet holes, a hatchet in his head, Nazi symbols, references to the MS-13 gang, racist and anti-Semitic slurs. 

Employer ignores CFRA obligations when plaintiff takes family time off to care for an adult son.  

Long-time nurse in the NICU is fired after photo surfaces of her sitting down with her bare feet propped up on an isolette used to house a sick infant.  She says that the firing over the photo was just a pretext, that she was really fired in retaliation for repeatedly reporting unsafe conditions for patients at Kaiser. 

Food services manager, in 60s, claims UCLA did not accommodate his restrictions after an on-the-job injury; later fired him on a pretext.

Woman caring for elderly patients in their homes is taken off the job after she complains about being misclassified as an independent contractor.

Concierge at high-end Marriott in San Francisco says failure to accommodate his needs at his workstation led to him quitting, triggered PTSD from earlier spinal injury.