Labor Lawyers Advice?

When someone is rolling along giving 110% and for no reason some new Punk manager rips the carpet out from under them it sucks. Yes we've all seen it. Don't make it right. It's usually the bean counters causing it and at that point the company is already in trouble in a lot of cases. However the OP's wife gave a big part of her life to this company and as a person she deserved way better than what they gave her. I personally would love to see her get big compensation from them and I don't even know her.
1 Quick call to a good Lawyer would answer the question.