> Departments of Labor usually LOVE aggressively defending employees' rights In my experience this is only true if it is easily proven that you were fired beca

> Departments of Labor usually LOVE aggressively defending employees' rights In my experience this is only true if it is easily proven that you were fired because of blatant racism or sexism. If it isn't either of those two reasons or it is harder to prove, nothing will happen. To the OP, yes it seems perfectly legal, you can be fired at any time for any reason that isn't one of a handful of protected reasons (sex, religion, race etc.). You can be fired for wearing blue that day if they so feel like it. It's just not usually so petty because it can be a little bit of a cost replacing a person.