Can a company hold a policy against you if there is no proof that you actually received it?
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Can a company hold a policy against you if there is no proof that you actually received it?
I was employed by a county as a teacher. I was told about a month into the first semester that I had until the end of the school year to obtain my provisional teaching license, which I did. The
county came back and terminated my contract because I did not finish a state test that the county also requires by the end of the school year. They claimed that I was notified of this policy but I was only notified of the license policy. Don’t they have to have proof that I received the policy in order to hold that against me?
Asked on August 21, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Virginia
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 8 years ago | Contributor
Until and unless you have a written employment contract and/or are protected by a union or collective bargaining contract, you are an employee at will. An employee at will may be terminated, or have her employment not renewed or continued, at any time, for any reason, including patently unfair ones, such as not fulfilling requirements of which she had no or insufficient notice. So, except as set out in a contract, you could be terminated for thus reason.
If you did have, or were covered by, a contract, you need to review the terms of the contract to see what it says about this situation. You cannot be terminated in violation of the contract; if you were, you could sue for breach of contract.
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