I worked for a major video corp. On July 12, our store had a loss prevention interviewer investagate the loss of several products and money during invetory. Myself and one other manager was interviewed, no others. I was suspened without pay. The other manager was given a final writeup. For days after the inventory, myself and the other manager, received back into inventory, products that came off our shevles. Which means that our inventory was incomplete. I was terminated for several class A violations. I was writen up for 1 violation before. I signed no paper for my adimittance, just verbal. I was not informed which class a violations I commited. I was given my termantion paper (without my signature), That said I violated several class A's. When I filed for unemployment, I was informed that my store manager said that I stole money and admitted to it, which I didn't. I contacted our HR department and she told me that my thought process meant intent. She informed me that the LP investagation was still ongoing, but still no others were interviewed, no checking video tapes, or paperwork were investagated. I informed her that our store manager had comitted several violations, at which she didn't act on just dismissed. Although there is a papertrail and video tapes confirming this, myself and the other manager have seen and processed. Myself and the other manager have the feeling that our District leader dissmissed all others from the LP process. Of the three managers at our store and district leader, I was then only heterosexual.

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I was seeing if this might be wrongful termination

I'm not seeing it based on what you've posted.

A wrongful termination means that you were fired for a reason specifically prohibited by law (race, religion, national origin etc; because you applied for or utilized a right or benefit protected under the law such as FMLA, workers comp, reporting unsafe activity to OSHA or illegal activity to the appropriate regulatory agency, etc.). What law do you think was violated?

You will have a great deal of difficulty proving wrongful termination based on what you describe. The company can state that you were terminated for just cause because of the violations. Whether another employee violated rules or not is not relevent. Also, California is an "at will" State which means that either you or the company can, at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without cause terminate employment. Fighting with your previous employer will not gain you anything.