Dana spent six years at a Pasadena dental office without a single bad review. Three weeks after she told her manager about her lupus diagnosis, a written warning landed on her desk. Five weeks later, she was carrying a cardboard box to her car and quietly searching for wrongful termination for medical reasons in California on her phone.
Dana is a composite, not a real client. Her story, though, plays out across Los Angeles more often than most people think, from Burbank studios to Long Beach warehouses.
Most workers in her spot make the same assumption. California is an at-will state, so the boss can let anyone go for any reason. That belief is only half right. An employer may end a job without warning, but not because someone got sick, took protected leave, or asked for help doing the work.
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