Is it legal for a corporation to fire an employee by a text on our cell phones?
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Is it legal for a corporation to fire an employee by a text on our cell phones?
In May of 2016, I received a text message from my General Manager that I was released from Advance Auto Parts after my disagreement with my vacation time that was taken at that time. I was told that human resources was contacted and was behind my firing. Of coarse, this is a believable coarse of action but is this a legal action of firing in my state? I still saved this text firing on my phone for viewable proof to verify.
Asked on September 12, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unless your discharge under the circumstances violated the terms of a union agreement or employment contract, it was legal. The fact is that most employment is "at will' which means that a company can set the conditions of employment much as it sees fit (absent some form of actionable discrimination). This includes termination an employee by phone or text.
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