Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, advises employees of the unlawful practices of Washington Mutual Bank (commonly known as WaMu) management and executives. Recently, the Los Angeles Times reported that five years prior to the collapse of Washington Mutual Bank […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, advises employees of their legal rights as “at will” employees. Shegerian states, “In the United States employees are generally hired ‘at will.’ This means that the employer may fire them for good cause, bad […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, advises employees of their legal rights in the workplace against religious discrimination and time off in observance of religious holidays. Shegerian states, “Under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers are prohibited by law […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, advises former employees of the costs and benefits of signing a severance agreement. A severance agreement, also known as a separation agreement, specifies the terms of one’s termination and often times when signed waives […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, disclosed a jury verdict from last week of $531,000 in favor of his client, Mrs. Betty Jones. Mrs. Jones, a former employee at Social Vocational Services, (an alleged non-profit organization that is supposed to […]

A group of American Armenian police officers with the Glendale Police Department –Vahak Mardikian, Tigran Topadzhikyan, Robert Parseghian, John Balian and Benny Simonzad – in January filed a discrimination suit against the GPD and about 30 individual employees of the department. While the trial is pending, their lawyer Carney Shegerian and city officials reflected on […]

The UCLA report said that equal status for immigrants should be established to ensure that they have the full protection and remedies of the law. “Although in theory unauthorized workers are already covered by most employment and labor laws, in practice their lack of legal status, their fear of deportation, and the willingness of employers […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, disclosed the initiation of a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Brandi Sherwood against the television game show The Price Is Right alleging discriminatory, harassing and retaliatory conduct based on her pregnancy, sex and […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, has issued the following statement informing employees of their rights under the “WARN” Act. On February 19, 2010 the Los Angeles Times reported that in an effort to help address the city’s budget crisis […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, has issued the following statement on military leave and re-employment rights. Those who serve in the military are often regularly employed employees who get called away from their jobs for military service. During this […]