• I was terminated from my employment and had a 401K account. I did not want to close it until I had another one to transfer it to at my new employment. Can the company I worked for or the company that holds my 401K account, close the account without my signature and send me a check stating the reason it was closed was because of my 'involuntary termination'? I did not request this account to be closed nor did I sign any papers for the account to closed. What recourse if any do I have or have the laws changed and it is now legal for them to do this?
  
• I was recently fired from my place of employment due to excessive absences. I have been quite sick lately, in and out of the hospital, but I have secured doctor's notes for each and every absence I have had. In addition, our company policy clearly states that 3 "write ups" equals firing. I have only been written up once and that was due to harassment, both in and outside of work, by my bosses niece. Do I have a case here?
  
• I've been w/my current company for 15 years, manager for the past seven years. This past Tuesday, the owner called me on the telephone to tell me my managerial position is being eliminated and my pay would be decreased to over 2/3rds of what I was currently earning. The background on the company; it is a wholesale/retail plumbing company serving Ventura-Oxnard that does not care for women in the business place. The manager of the wholesale division who will be running both stores now told all the sales personnel and hourly workers that I decided that I didn't want to be a manager anymore and wanted to go into sales. Do I have any recourse? I did not make any of these decisions.
  
• I have worked with a Ventura company for 4-1/2yrs. and have never gotten a raise because I was told that I was capped out at the highest wage. I am a Home Health Aide. Can I put in for a cost of living wage and if so, how do I go about it?
  
• I quit a job in November due to a couple of instances of sexual harassment concerning my supervisor to myself and other employees. My employer was, (told to us by said supervisor,) unavailable to employees. Who do I turn to?
• I have a class C felony that will be a yr old in July of this year, the problem is it seems that Oxnard employers does not look past that and I am not offered a job. I am 57 years old and that is the first time I have been in trouble. I have never been in jail, just 3 years probation. I am an electrician by trade. What I need to know is how to approach this, I have had 2 interviews this week but so far no one has called me back. I would appreciate any help or info.
  
• I worked at a Ventura company that went out of business in mid 2009. The firm gave us flex spending accounts, but HR never told us of the ‘use it or lose it’ rule and that we had to make all claims before the doors closed. Can the firm, its benefits firm and the firm hired to admin the program be sued for gross misconduct for failing to tell us this? When they provide medical coverage and they pay for it, no problem. When we as employees pay in for our own benefit, we deserve better treatment. I would never have set aside so much money had I known I'd lose the money.
  
• My husband’s employer has filed Ch.13 in Ventura County. The money card was deactivated which I contacted them to find out about. Turns out our dentist office had over charged the card and a credit needed to be applied back to the card so it could be activated for use. We did this and at the same time, had the company confirm to the dentist office by phone that once the credit was applied the funds would be there for the dentist office to perform the work. Then we were told to submit manually, but had to show proof of payment as well before they would consider reimbursement. After requests to speak to a supervisor, the 3rd call to them after all this, we have now been informed by them that we do not have access to this money. And they still show that our money is a credit to be used, which they say we cannot have access to. This money represents wages earned and put into an account on a biweekly basis. They confirmed the funds were available and now they are saying we are stuck with a $1400.00 bill. Any recourse?
  
  
  
  

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