Legal Question in Employment Law in Massachusetts
Being fired after moving
I was hired for a job in which my employers placed me in their Boston, MA office so I had to move from upstate New York. After working there for a month I was fired. Can I sue for my living expenses since I moved to Boston because that is where they told me I had to be?
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Re: Being fired after moving
Why were you fired? If you were fired "for cause," such as b/c you violated an employment policy, rule, acted in an inappropriate way justifying the firing, you have no grounds to claim expenses. At the other extreme, if they induced you to move with promises that the company was thriving and growing, and enticed you to move, but the reality was the opposite and they couldn't afford to pay, then you might have some kind of expectation to expenses. In between those two extremes would depend on the facts, but absent some express reason for you to expect continuing employment, the claims are probably tenuous.
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