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Most retaliation is legal. If the company fired you because you were exercising some protected right (e.g. taking FMLA leave, making an ADA reasonable accommodation request, organizing with other employees to better wages or working conditions, filing a complaint about illegal discrimination against you, filing a complaint with OSHA over work place safety issues, etc) that would be illegal retaliation and a wrongful termination. But since your leave from work appears to have not been one that you had a right to under the law, like FMLA leave, there wasn’t any protection for you against the company changing your job responsibilities. In general a private employer can change your job responsibilities at any time unless the reason for doing it is illegal discrimination ( your race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, age (if age 40+), disability, or genetic test information under federal law) or illegal retaliation. Complaining about that legal change to your job responsibilities is something for which a company may indeed fire you. I'm not seeing any obvious wrongful termination case here. If a lawyer you have consulted thinks there is a good case here, ask him/her to explain the basis for the lawsuit: what does the lawyer think the company did that was prohibited by law?
Per lawyer, discrimination due to disability. (ADA Act). What clarification should I seek from them - since most seniors members in the board think that not to be the case.