Terminated Without Notice

Answer:

A few weeks ago, we received a call from a client who worked in Huntington Beach, California. The client had been employed by her employer for over three years and was terminated without any type of notice. The question came up of, “Is my employer required to give me any type of notice before I’m terminated?” In California, most employee are at-will employees, meaning an employer can fire you for any reason so long as it’s not something illegal. Just like an employee is not required by law, if there’s no contract, to provide notice to the employer that they’re going to quit, generally speaking, an employer is not required to provide any type of notice to an employee before terminating them.

There are certain requirements that employers are required to do when they terminate someone. For example, they have to have all the money that’s owed to the employee available at that time. If you believe that you’ve been wrongfully terminated, give our office a call for a consultation.