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Wrongful Termination

Martoccio Law Group helps employees fight wrongful termination and hold employers accountable when firings cross the legal line.

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Wrongful Termination

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If your termination does not feel fair or just, there is a chance that it is unlawful. Examples of wrongful termination include but are not limited to the following:

  • Discrimination based on race, age, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, etc
  • Retaliation for requesting or taking time off for medical reasons or requesting a medical accommodation
  • Retaliation for requesting or taking a maternity or paternity leave
  • Retaliation for opposing discrimination or sexual harassment

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FMLA Retaliation

Taking FMLA leave is a protected right. If your employer answered it with a demotion, a termination, or a quiet shift in how you are treated, that may be retaliation.
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Pregnancy Discrimination

Pregnancy discrimination often arrives as reduced hours, a denied accommodation, or pressure to resign — before leave, during recovery, or the week you come back.
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Workplace Discrimination

Discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, or another protected characteristic can shape your pay, your promotions, and whether you keep your job at all.
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Sexual Harassment

Unwanted advances, a hostile work environment, or an employer that looked away after you reported it. Sexual harassment claims often turn on what happened next.
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Failure To Accommodate

Employers have to engage with a request for a reasonable accommodation for a disability, medical condition, or religious practice. Stalling the request is its own problem.
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Severance Agreement

A severance agreement is a release of claims you may not know you have. Once it is signed the leverage is gone, which is why the time to review it is before that.
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Current Employee PIP

A performance improvement plan is sometimes a real chance to improve and sometimes a paper trail built ahead of a termination. How you respond to it matters.

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