Q: Can a company terminate you for no reason after 3 years of employment?

A: In California, assuming you are at will, your employer can terminate you for any reason or no reason, but not a prohibited reason. Prohibited reasons include hostility to a protect class such as race, religion, gender, gender expression, nation origin, pregnancy, military service, disability or opposing illegal conduct.

Employers often attempt to avoid liability for wrongful termination by refusing to disclose their reasoning. You can and should request a copy of all your employment records, including payroll records, your employment file and copies of any documents you signed. The employer is required to provide them within 30 days.

A: Yes it is perfectly legal for an employer to terminate an employee for any reason or even no reason at all, which means an employer has no duty to tell you why, or any facts upon which it is relying to terminate the employment.

A: You need to have an attorney request your work records through a proper letter quoting the provisions of the Labor Code that entitle you to your records, then you can see what they put down as the reason for your termination.

If you are a union member, there are restrictions, and many cashiers are unionized. Otherwise, you are an at will employee, and the employer does not have to have a "good cause" reason to fire you, or any reason at all, UNLESS the real reason they fired you is in violation of the anti discrimination laws. The failure to provide you any reason could actually be to conceal a true, discriminatory and illegal reason. This case could require some additional investigation.