Legal Question in Employment Law in Missouri
Rules changed for training
When I went to work for the consulting company, which I am still employed at, I was told that per the request of the client, I would receive paid for training. After working 3 months for a client, they requested Java training for me. My consulting company added a requirement that the client pay my billable hours and my company pays my training. This was not in what my consulting company originally told me, anyway the client said no to this. And now after 6 months of working with the client, they are letting me go because I do not have java training requested. Is there anything that can be done about this or did my consulting company work within the bounds of the law on this? The puzzlement, is I offered to pay for training myself at my expense after the whole thing, just for future jobs elsewhere, and they seemed to not want to give me the chance to do that? I am a US citizen and a female, and the consulting company I work for recently has about 80% H1 Visas who bought up as cheaper temporaries. Not sure if that plays into anything.
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Re: Rules changed for training
Very interesting question. Very complicated situation. Did any of the "cheaper" workers get the training? Did any male employees get the training? What is the company doing with the account? Is someone else who has the training going to handle it or did the company lose the account.
You could very possibly have a claim depending on the answers to those questions. It could be national origin or gender discrimination. If you are over 40 and the person who replaced you was younger you could have an age discrimination case. Where there is smoke there is fire. I am very intrigued.
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