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Many individuals in today’s workplace may experience illegal retaliation. In years past, many victims of retaliation had no help from the government or the courts. More recently, that long-awaited protectionRead MoreAre You a Victim of Retaliation for Raising an Issue with Your Employer or a Government Agency? California Has Recently Strengthened Its Protection of Your Rights.

Despite, and possibly because of, the federal government’s extensive history developing and implementing a complex web of protections for whistleblowers, California has long been deficient in fortifying its own legislation.Read MoreHow the Expansion of Whistleblower Protection Legislation is Impacting Qui Tam Litigation in California’s Health Care Industry

As a Los Angeles-based employee rights law firm, we’ve received numerous calls from folks who’ve quit their old jobs on the promise of a new job. When they have actuallyRead MoreQuit old job, denied new public employment job in Los Angeles

Some jobs are open-ended; the employee stays in his or her position until he quits, is fired or laid off, or the company goes out of business. On the otherRead MoreWhat are a worker’s rights under an employment contract?

The wrongdoing uncovered by whistleblowers in the private sector often involves poor workplace conditions that put employees in danger. Government workers also sometimes blow the whistle on risk of harm,Read MoreSupreme Court considering TSA air marshal’s whistleblower claim

The Los Angeles Employment Attorney law firm of Stephen Danz & Associates (with offices throughout California) represents whistleblowers in numerous industries including construction. In a recent case we settled, aRead MoreWhistleblower Retaliation, wrongful termination and OSHA violations in California employment

A case brought under the federal Whistleblower Protection Act has made its way to the US Supreme Court. TSA air mrshal Robert LacLean disclosed to a newspaper that flights fromRead MoreWhistleblower forces TSA to admit mistakes

A recent case, Izell vs. Union Carbide Corporation, has upheld a punitive damages award of 18 million dollars, even though the compensatory portion of the verdict was reduced by theRead MorePunitive Damages in WhistleBlower and Retaliation Cases

People of all genders, races, religions and sexual orientations who are in the workforce may be vulnerable to age discrimination someday. If they are not currently old enough, they willRead MoreMultiple laws ban age discrimination at the workplace

There are many whistle blower laws in California (see Labor Code 1102.5, the grandfather of them all), but a specific one for all California health care workers (including doctors) toRead MoreHealthcare Workers protection for whistle blowers