Ajury awarded $6 million to an employee in a wrongful termination action, but a California appeals court lowered the award by $140,000, finding that the employee’s damages should have been reduced by the amount of income she earned from other employment after she was fired.
On March 27, 2018, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found the employer liable for just over $6 million after concluding that it had wrongfully terminated the employee, who had worked for the employer, a pharmacy chain, for 23 years. The employee had suffered an incident at work that caused her to have an emotional reaction and be transported to the hospital. After returning to work following medical leave, the employer transferred her to four different stores over a two-and-a-half-year period before terminating her for alleged poor work performance and attitude.
