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For a California employee to successfully claim employer retaliation and recover damages, your California employer must have retaliated against you in a way that would dissuade a reasonable employee from exercising a protected right. For example, if your employer does not invite you out to lunch, that might be unfriendly, but not necessarily retaliation.  However, if the lunch was part of a training program that you should not be missing, the perhaps retaliation is involved.  An experienced Southern California employment lawyer can look over the facts of your specific case.

Here are a few examples of retaliation — talk to an employment attorney if you have been the victim of any of them:

 - false criminal charges against an employee who exercises a protected right;

- refusing to give a reference after the employment relationship has ended based on a motive to retaliate;

- changing your schedule may be retaliation if your employer knows that your schedule will not permit you to come to work at other times (like if you are a mother of school age children);

- excluding you from a training exercise that contributes to your professional advancement;

- reassigning your job duties so that you have to do more difficult or strenuous duties;

- suspending you without pay, even if you eventually receive full back-pay;

- giving you a smaller raise than other employees;

- denying or delaying promoting you;

- a undeserved negative performance review that might impair future employment prospects;

- a campaign of hostility and harassment by coworkers or supervisors that is sufficiently severe and management does not protest;

- exclusion from meetings, denial of administrative support and transfer of job duties.

There are many other ways that your California employer can retaliate against you, all of them against the law in California. You have rights as an employee, let us help you defend them.

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