JUDSON STEEL CORP. v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Docket No. L.A. 30876.

22 Cal.3d 658 (1978)

586 P.2d 564

150 Cal. Rptr. 250

JUDSON STEEL CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and RALPH MAESE, Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

November 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Zonni, Ginocchio & Taylor and Ben F. Taylor for Petitioner.

Charles Lawrence Swezey, Philip M. Miyamoto, Thomas J. McBirnie, Raymond G. Agnew and Stanley S. Lifton for Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

This case presents the issue whether an employer who terminates an employee's seniority rights, and, ultimately, his employment, because of the employee's absence from his job as the result of an industrial injury, has engaged in unlawful discrimination within the meaning of Labor Code section 132a. In 1972 the Legislature amended section 132a to provide that "It is the declared policy of this state that there...

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