California Defamation Law: Libel and Slander that Injures Professional Reputation at Workplace
This article originally appeared in My Employment Lawyer on November 8, 2009. Reprinted with permission from the author. One of the powerful but also somewhat underused claims that employees who are falsely accused of any kind of misconduct at workplace have is a claim for defamation (libel and slander). Proving a defamation claim in court …