I worked for this employer for over a year and yes recently i have had problems getting to work but i received a call from him saying there was 40 dollars missing out of the register and i was fired well 4 other people besides myself run the register and he always counts it down when i leave. Then he tells me i have to write a letter to him saying i quit for personnel reasons!! ? Why would i have to do that i didn't quit!! I would never steal from him so if he wanted to fire me he could have just said because i have been late so much lately and that would have been fine but to fire me than call me a thief it just isn't right. So i was wandering what i can do?
2007-11-30 09:05:15 · 8 answers · asked by shorttie189 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
refuse the letter, obviously. Something definately wrong with that. Then i would say you wnat me fired, be a man and do it! The I'm assuming you are young and he's trying to push you around. There's something more to the story, and maybe you don't even know why. There's nothing you can do to keep the job, as you said you missed a lot of work.
2007-11-30 09:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by primalclaws1974 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I pretty much agree with the other answers. Unless you're leaving some detail out, he wasn't in the wrong to fire you. In many cases you can be terminated with or without any reason, as long as you're not working as part of a contract.
As for the letter, refuse to provide it. It does sound as though he's trying to avoid paying unemployment, which you can collect if you were fired, but not if you quit.
2007-11-30 17:15:08 · answer #2 · answered by callmechurra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on where you live or whether you have a union, quite possibly nothing. In a right-to-work state, a business can fire you as long as you are not engaged in protected and collective activity or as long as it is not because you are in a certain protected group (ie because you're female, black, etc.) This firing falls in neither category, so you may have no remedy. If this is a part of a larger chain store, you could call the HR department of the company.
2007-11-30 17:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Jamir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An employer may generally discharge you at any time and for any reason, even a capricious one.
Get a little recorder, turn it on and put it in your pocket. Then get him to tell you again that you need to write a letter saying you resigned.
He can fire you, but he can not require you to lie. One of those little recorders saved me a LOT of grief a few years ago.
2007-11-30 17:20:47 · answer #4 · answered by Tom K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't you write the letter, such letter should come from the employer and not you.Get a Union solicitor to work for you.
Stand up for you rights and if the employer is a threatening employer have a union delegate with you to ask why , is that you have to write a letter to quit.
There is something wrong .
2007-12-01 21:35:48 · answer #5 · answered by the.texican 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't sign anything. Go to the unemployment office and file a claim (which he will have to fund) and tell them the truth about what happened.
Forget a lawsuit, just collect your fair unemployment insurance and start looking for another job.
cheers.
2007-11-30 17:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by Perplexed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DO NOT WRITE THE LETTER. Let him fire you himself if he wants. If you say you're quitting, you're basically signing away all your rights.
2007-11-30 17:31:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems like he wants to avoid paying you unemployment compensation. If you quit, you are not entitled to comp.
2007-11-30 17:09:14 · answer #8 · answered by regerugged 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋