Boss is saying I was fired, but I wasn’t?
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Boss is saying I was fired, but I wasn’t?
After working at this local business for a while, I was told that I wouldn’t be put on the schedule, because they hired too many people but I would be called in when needed. However, now my former boss is telling people that I was fired. Also, before being
Asked on June 29, 2018 under Employment Labor Law, Illinois
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
If the boss says you were fired, you were fired. Employment in this country is employment at will--that means you have no right to your job, and may be terminated at any time, for any reason. Even if originally you were not told that you were fired and that you may be called in later, if there was work, if they have now decided that you are fired, you are fired. (And, of course, they may simply have been trying to spare your feelings or avoid a confrontation by not telling you to your face that you were fired, hoping that you'd take the hint--someone who is never scheduled or given work IS fired, even if the employer doesn't say so in so many words.) There is nothing you can do about this: if the boss is saying now that they terminated you, they terminated you.
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