<prompt> Human: My mother was recently laid off from a hospital she worked at for 11 years. The workers there usually earn annual pay increases and my mother was making double what some of the other people doing the same thing as her were. Anyways her being laid off has put us in a bad situation seeing as how she is a single parent already struggling to pay the bills with my help 19. So my question is it legal for them to fire her for no reasons other than not wanting to pay her what she has earned?  <response>: She can be fired for any non protected reason. Not wanting her to pay her that much isnt a protected reason. 