Legal Question in Legal Ethics in Michigan
Recently Terminiated
I was recently terminated from an IT staffing company where I was the top sales person for two years. While employeed I had watched numerous times when management had decided to go on firing sprees for no apparent reason. Then my time came. They called me into the office and told me they were firing me. I asked why and they said it is not working out. I was the top sales person for the past two years and had been given nothing but praise from management. Later after being fired, I found out that they hired four new employees the day before and fired seven current employees the same day as me. This whole operation seems really shady to me. Is there someone I should/can report this company to?
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Re: Recently Terminiated
What you have to realize, and this comes as a shock to the vast majority of people, is that there is no protection in the workplace to be treated fairly and rationally. The lack of job protections is why civil rights laws have ben passed, to protect people from being fired for racial, religious, national origin or some sex issues. There is some protection for public policy issues, such as an employer who forces an employee to break the law and endanger the public. That is why people unionize. Many union contracts require that there be a just cause before a person can be fired, unless it is economics. The reason that you will find this difficult to accept, is that you come from a generation that did not experience what led to the labor movement. The entire work force has benefited from the fact that labor unions exist. However, as unions become increasingly irrelevant in the workplace, there will be less and less loyalty on the part of employers toward their employees. William S. Stern
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