Wrongful Termination

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Can You Sue Your Employer for Being Offensive? Only If It’s Illegal Discrimination

If your boss does something inappropriate, unfair, or just downright disrespectful, it is natural to wonder whether you can sue. After all, employees should not have to put up with bad behavior at work. But here is the hard truth: just because your employer acts badly...

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Yes, You Can Be Fired While Pregnant If You Skip Safety, Disregard Protocol, And Refuse To Follow The Rules

Being pregnant doesn’t mean you’re untouchable at work. Just ask Lauralee Richmond. In Richmond v. Team One Contract Services, L.L.C., No. 24-40815, 2025 WL 2206981 (5th Cir. Aug. 4, 2025), she claimed pregnancy discrimination after getting fired while seven months...

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Yes, You Can Be Disciplined For Publicly Airing Grievances, Refusing To Work, And Failing To Understand What FMLA Is – Even If You’re A Tenured Law Professor Claiming Race Discrimination

Let’s say you’re a tenured law professor at a prestigious law school. You’ve got the job security with tenure that most people only dream about. But then you disrupt a student conference, yell at the dean’s assistant, publicly blast your colleagues through a faculty...

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If You Told The EEOC You’re Not Disabled, Goodbye To Your ADA Claim

Sometimes, your own words can come back to haunt you—especially if you say the wrong thing to the EEOC. Just ask Adam Gomez. When he filed an charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) against his employer, he checked the box that said he was not...

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Yes, You Can Be Fired For Engaging In Verbal And Physical Altercations At Work

Some employees believe that once they report race/color discrimination, they have a shield against getting fired. And they do - but only from being retaliated against for reporting the racial discrimination. But that anti-retaliation protection can quickly crumble if...

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Can I Sue My Employer for ADA Failure to Accommodate If They Agreed to My Request?

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), a failure to accommodate occurs when an employer refuses or fails to provide a reasonable accommodation that would allow a qualified employee with a disability to perform the essential functions of their job. That...

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Yes, You Can Be Fired For Getting Busted Doing Manual Labor While On FMLA For Being “Completely Disabled”

Getting caught lying to your employer is never a good idea. It is the workplace version of lighting a match in a fireworks factory—you are not going to like the outcome. Whether it is calling off sick to go to a ballgame (and then showing up on TV), posting beach...