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How much Is Witness Statements Important in Winning a Wrongful Termination Case?

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Have you been treated unfairly or illegally for an extended period of time, before losing your job? If so, you may have been a victim of wrongful termination. There are hundreds of individuals just like you who got discriminated and mistreated at the workplace and finally terminated. Most of them won’t do anything about it, but will simply move on looking for another job. Those brave enough will stand up to discrimination, seek legal help from a Wrongful Termination Attorney and do everything they can to prove that they are actually victims. You should be among them! Never let anyone intimidate you and tell you what to do. All it takes is one witness, one statement from someone who has seen or heard it all. But why is witness statement so important, and can it really affect the outcome? Case Is Closed Usually, terminated employees don’t have enough evidence to start with, and so the investigation is long and exhausting. Lawyers spend days trying to find that one evidence

How Hard is Wrongful Termination to Prove?

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Losing your job is an unfortunate event, one that may occur when you least expect it. In California, hundreds of people are fired every day. But is every firing “legal”, or are the those whose rights are injured? Wrongful termination is tricky to prove. Yes, it does happen every day, but how do you prove that it actually happens to you? You probably feel aggravated for losing your job, and want to do something about it. Before you decide to take the legal course of action, we suggest you get the facts together. Here’s where you can start. Your Contract Do you even have a work contract? Have you signed any documents before you started working? Have you had any communication with your employer where they promised you work? Have you received a written promise? If the answer is “Yes” to any of the above-listed options, the chances are that you actually have a “working contract”. Most workers in California are “at-will” employees, meaning that they did not sign any contr

Some Risks during Wrongful Termination as an Employee

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There are hundreds of firings throughout California every day. And while most of those firings are by the book, there are some exceptions where a person was fired for the “wrong reasons”. This is called wrongful termination, and once it happens, the fired individual may seek compensation and file a wrongful termination claim. Did you know that 7 out of 10 claims are successful? What happens to those 3 claims that are unsuccessful, and what lead to their demise? In most cases, employees don’t pay attention to the risks of losing a case. And those risks may cost you more than you can afford. Listed below are some of them, and ways to avoid them. Were You Really Wrongfully Terminated? The most important thing about your wrongful termination case is actually proving that you were terminated for the wrong reasons. Fail to do prove it, and you may end up being sued by your employer or the company you used to work for. Not every employee who failed to prove that the termination w