Medical Discrimination Attorney
Dealing with a severe illness is stressful, especially when your employer is making your life even more difficult by discriminating against you at work. If you are the victim of unfair employer actions due to your medical condition you may be entitled to compensation.
I am Karl A. Gerber, founder and lead trial attorney of the Employment Lawyers Group. Our attorneys have extensive experience helping employees who have experienced discrimination due to cancer, AIDS, diabetes and other serious medical conditions. Contact us to discuss your case.
In Southern California, we have offices in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, Gardena, Tustin, San Diego, Oxnard, and Bakersfield. In Northern California we have employee labor law offices in Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Jose. We handle cases in all parts of California.
Protections For Workers With Serious Medical Conditions
In California, disabled employees enjoy broad protections under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and possibly the California Family Rights Act (CFRA).
If you qualify, under the CFRA and the FMLA, you can take up to 12 weeks of leave in a 12-month period to deal with health issues. You may be able to take additional leave if you are disabled. Since your company's human resources department may not be aware of the law, it is best to consult an experienced employment law attorney to determine your rights. Determining which leave law applies is a question for an experience leave of absence attorney.
If you have medical restrictions due to your medical condition, your employer is required to honor those restrictions. If your condition qualifies as a disability under the Department of Fair Employment and Housing or the Family and Medical Leave Act, your employer is required to make reasonable accommodations that would allow you to perform your essential job functions.
Employers cannot take adverse actions against you based on your medical condition such as:
- Failing to hire you
- Demoting or transferring you
- Firing you
- Reducing your hours
- Failing to accommodate your medical conditions and/or treatment
- Giving you a false, poor work evaluation
- Failing to reinstate the employee following a leave of absence
We have won many jury trials involving disabilities and pregnancy discrimination. Likewise we have won binding arbitrations involving Family Medical Leave Act issues. We have also settled lawsuits for employees going through cancer treatment. One recent settlement resulted in the employee receiving compensation of more than seven years of her normal salary. Another settlement for an employee suffering from cancer resulted in her restoration of disability insurance benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and additional monetary compensation.
Contact a Los Angeles Employment Lawyer
To speak to a Los Angeles medical discrimination attorney, call (877) 525-0700 toll free. Only an attorney experienced in this area can properly advise you which laws apply. We handle all cases on a contingency fee basis with no upfront costs. Se habla español.
Our Firm: No upfront fees or costs
Contingency Fee Representation
All employment cases for employees are taken on a contingency basis. We are only paid a fee when and if we win your case, and we advance all litigation costs. Our goal is to make expert legal representation accessible to every hardworking employee.
Serving Santa Clara County
We have proudly served all of Santa Clara County since 1993.
The Employment Lawyers Group has successfully handled
2,000+
Separate California Employment Cases
Media Engagements
Sample Case Results
Employment Case
$18,402,868
Jury verdict for male visually harassed and subject to crude comments by a female manager
breach of commission contract
$1,150,000
Unpaid commissions of two plaintiffs
unpaid wages
$875,000
For 4 oil field service industry workers whose times worked were not recorded on timesheets and were on-call
Disclaimer: These results are based on the facts of these specific cases and do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case.
Practice Areas
Discrimination
Age, Disability, Family Medical Leave (FMLA/CFRA), Gender, National Origin, Pregnancy, Race, and Sexual Orientation claims.
Unpaid Wages & Overtime
Recovering earnings for Overtime, Bonuses, Commissions, Meal & Rest Breaks, and Prevailing Wage violations.
Sexual Harassment
Compassionate and effective representation for victims of sexual harassment and hostile work environment claims.
Wrongful Termination
Representing employees terminated in violation of public policy, contracts, or California and Federal law.
Leaves & Retaliation
Protecting employees who face adverse actions after reporting illegal activity or taking protected medical leave.
Whistleblowers
Advocating for employees who report fraud, waste, or abuse in their organizations under whistleblower protections.
Our California Locations
Bakersfield
5401 Business Park S, #214,
Bakersfield CA 93309
Los Angeles
Orange County
Riverside
Sacramento
777 Campus Commons Rd, #200,
Sacramento CA 95825
San Bernardino
San Diego
San Francisco
524 Union St, #400,
San Francisco CA 94133
San Jose
Sherman Oaks
Torrance
Ventura
Additional Sites
BostonLaborLaw.com
FresnoEmployeeLawyer.com
JobLawyer.net
ModemStud.com
VintageLosAngeles.org
WorkLawyerCA.info
About Firm Founder, Karl Gerber
Firm Founder, Karl Gerber, has been an employment wrongful termination attorney since 1993. He has represented a wide range of employees throughout California.
Mr. Gerber has won 51 of the binding arbitrations and jury trials he first chaired, and a number of his appeals are published. This deep trial experience is the foundation of the firm's strategic approach to litigation.
The employment attorneys employed by the Employment Lawyers Group have worked at the firm well in excess of five years, have also tried many different labor cases, and have all been extensively trained on employment wrongful termination by Karl Gerber.
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