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Employers also benefit from the near-record low unemployment rate when they fire someone.
These days, terminated workers can usually quickly find new jobs, often at a higher salary than before. So even if someone can prove he was fired illegally, he could have a tough time making a case that his former employer owes him a lot of money for lost wages. A legal doctrine called mitigation of damages obligates employees who lose their jobs to take reasonable steps to obtain other work. The mitigation principle does not mean that a graphic designer has to take a job as a bicycle messenger or relocate from Nashville to San Francisco to find work. But a worker would be expected to take a job that is similar to what they did before, at comparable pay and in the same general geographic area.