Posted by Editor | Posted in Personal Injury News
Last week Roberto Hernandez sued American Apparel Inc. and its CEO for wrongful termination after he refused to stretch the company’s books to make them look more appealing to potential investors.
Hernandez, who worked in the company’s accounts payable and IT departments, brought the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
American Apparel disputes that he was an accountant for them and calls the lawsuit “fictional”. It said that Hernandez was fired for legitimate reasons.
“The best they can come up with was ‘legitimate reasons’,” Herndandez’s personal injury attorney said. “I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist—is it tardiness, is it insubordination?—if they had a single reason, they would’ve told you that.”
In a written press statement, the company attributed the allegations to Hernandez’s personal injury lawyer trying to get “phony leverage” because he’s been “engaged with the company in other litigation for over three years”.
His personal injury attorney also represents a client in a separate sexual harassment lawsuit, which in one of several that have been filed against the clothing company.
The company just reported that a third of its profit fell 61 percent after it spent $13.2 million on stock-based compensation; however, its revenues have risen 45 percent. Shares fell 35.2 percent after the new lawsuit went public.
