Legal Question in Employment Law in Louisiana
I was recently fired from my job where I work in a car parts warehouse stocking shelves and pulling parts that have been ordered. The reason I was fired was because they suddenly insisted that I take this new long haul, out-of-state delivery route that they created. They knew and accepted from the time I took the warehouse job over a year ago that I did not want a delivery route. During the over a year I worked there 2 other delivery routes came available and neither of them were even offered to me because they knew I did not want to do that for a living. Plus, this new delivery route would have increased my work day from 8 hours to 11+ hours. There was another person recently hired who had been a delivery driver prior to coming there. As far as I know they did not even offer him the position they tried to force on me before they fired me for refusing it.
2 Answers from Attorneys
An employer can terminate an employee "at will" for reasons other than statutorily protected rights, such as, civil right violations (race, gender, national origin, etc). Considering your explanation, your employer did not violate any law by terminating you for refusing to further corporate business.
I agree with Mr. Brown, and would add that your argument seems to be geared to an unemployment claim rather than a wrongful discharge claim. I am floored everytime someone passes up a job because it was not way they wanted at a time when people are begging for work. Unemployment is a gift that will end sooner than later. Good luck.
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