What are my rights to fight employment termination?
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What are my rights to fight employment termination?
I have recently been fired for falsification company records. I worked at a retail store and they ask us to ask customers for their emails to help get them signed up for the stores program. I was getting in trouble for not getting enough of them so if a customer said they rather not give their info I put in a fake one. I did this 3 times before I realized that it wasn’t worth getting fired over. Well it turns out that 3 times was enough to get fired. My only problem with this is that it’s not truly a record until the email is confirmed with the access code. And since the code was thrown away and the email was fake it was never enrolled in the program. How can I get fired for this?
Asked on October 27, 2010 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Unless there is an employment contract, union agrrement, or company policy that is contrary to such action, your employer had the legal right to terminate you. This also holds true so long as employment discrimination did not play a role in your dismissal. The reason in that most employment relationships are what is known as "at will"; meaning that you can choose to work for an employer or not and an employer can hire or fire you for any reason or no reason. While seemingly unfair it's the law.
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