3 ?'s Am I being discriminated against? Does he have to give me notice? Can he hire new people without offering me work first?

Assuming you were not in a union, these facts will not give rise to any legal claims. Employers are free to hold grudges and make arbitrary...

Can my job fire me?

Assuming you are an at will employee, you can be fired based on pending charges, even if the charges are reduced from DUI. If the charges are...

I can certainly understand why you are frustrated. Unfortunately, while the Labor Code requires employers to pay earned wages on regularly...

Resignation - Retaliation

Your employer is under no obligation to continue employing you until the date you have given as your last day absent an express agreement to the...

Could I sue my dentist?

What do you mean by your dentist's "abandonment"? If you mean that they decided to stop treating you, that most likely would not give rise to a...

Unethical?

Dishonest? It would seem that way. Unethical? Perhaps. But neither of these things are inherently illegal. What's potentially illegal is...

I have given my employer two weeks notice that I'm leaving. I have two "floating holidays" still on the books.

Floating holidays are treated as vacation time. While your employer can control your use of floating holidays, they must "cash you out" upon...

I'm an independent contractor who has done nothing wrong, Does my employer have the right to fire me?

Whether you are a contractor or employee your employer can fire you. However, if you were misclassified as a contractor when you should have been...

I sued/settled my HOA. Then their attorney sent letters to all owners attacking me (95% is verifiably false). Are they protected

Whether or not you have a defamation claim depends on what they said about you. You don't want to be describing that here, as Avvo is a public...

On call shifts california

According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the compensability of on call time depends on whether the worker is "waiting to be engaged or engaged to be...