Judson Steel Corp. v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

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 should not be discrimination against workers who are injured in the course and scope of their employment.”1 In the instant case, the Workers’ *662Compensation Appeals…