Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, discusses how employee whistleblowers should feel protected to step forward when aware of illegal and unsafe employer practices. Associated Press reports, “Investigators are looking into whether long-known problems with the heating system in a […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, confirms representing yet another lawsuit against the Glendale Police Department alleging harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and failure to prevent discrimination and harassment in violation of both the Fair Employment and Housing Act and Civil Rights […]

A black Glendale police officer this week filed a lawsuit claiming on-the-job discrimination, making it the second time in less than a month that a Glendale police officer has filed suit. Officer Tyrone Hunter filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Tuesday. He says he was unfairly taken off a top narcotics investigative assignment […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm specializing in employee rights, disclosed the filing of a state civil rights lawsuit filed this past week on behalf of Marc Mendoza against the Glendale Police Department alleging wrongful demotion, harassment, discrimination, retaliation and failure to prevent discrimination and harassment in […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, discusses disparate pay and discrimination on the basis of gender. A pending class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart has brought to light pay discrimination against female workers. On April 26, 2010, the Associated Press reported, […]

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 […]