Can I be fired for just cause as opposed to being laid off for refusing a position that would require re-location?
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Can I be fired for just cause as opposed to being laid off for refusing a position that would require re-location?
I was laid off from Company A and as part of that layoff I was picked up by Company B. Company A laid off several hundred employees by outsourcing them to Company B. As part of that transition if Company B lays off any of the employees that they picked up from Company A prior to the end of next year then those employees will receive the IRIF package that Company A originally offered. Company B contracts with other companies for work providing them with the resources manpower and knowledge that they need to complete a task. Company B has contracts world-wide with their home in India.
Asked on December 20, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, California
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
In every state in this country, employees unless that have a written contract for a specific term are at will employees and can essentially be terminated for any plausible reason with the exception of some discriminatory reason such as ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and the like.
In your situation, if your current employer needs you to re-locate as part of its plans as well as part of your job description and you refuse to re-locate for this employer, your employer can simply terminate your position as part of some plan within to downsize and re-allocate the type of services you provide where some other person will either be asked to re-locate or a new person would be hired for the other location.
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