Is an employer's adverse action against an employee not illegal just because it is ill-advised?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Frawley v. L. A. Cnty. Metro. Transp. Auth., B254562 (Cal. App. 2016):

reason, as long as its action is not for an unlawful reason."8 The official directions for use of this instruction provide: "Give this instruction to advise the jury that the employer's adverse action is not illegal just because it is ill-advised. It has been held to be error not to give this instruction. (See Veronese v. Lucasfilm Ltd. (2012) 212 Cal.App.4th 1, 20-24 . . . .)"

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