What are my rights after suspension without pay?
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What are my rights after suspension without pay?
Woke up an hour and a half late for work on a day I was suppose to open. I understand but feel this action was taken out of his sense of loss of control. I have been working for this company small business going on 5 years. There is much disorganization and at the beginning of employment, the
Asked on June 17, 2016 under Employment Labor Law, Ohio
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unless you have a an actual written employment contract which specifies your disciplinary rights and the disciplinary process, you don't have any rights: without a written employment contract, you are an employee at will and may be terminated--or disciplined, demoted, pay cut, or suspended--at any time, for any reason, regardless of what the company may have done or not done in the past. So handling this with grace, etc. probably means simply not commenting on it any more than strictly necessary (such as in response to questions from a manager about it), because you don't have an enforceable rights.
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