Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia

Termination
I know, I know, communist state of Virginia with no regards to the worker. But I was fired for almost losing a contract which didn't happen and almost costing the company an engine which didn't happen. Also my assistant foreman was the one that told me the oils in the machines were ok but the owner didn't listen. I think I was set up by personnel under me and it's almost impossible to prove. I was told I would be getting a termination agreement and severance pay if I signed the agreement. Most people are telling me that if he went through the trouble of hiring an attorney to draft the documents he must be trying to cover himself in some sort of way. I was a supervisor for 2 1/2 years with no verbal or written warnings and my attendance was impeccable. Before now the owner made it a point to give a verbal and 2 written warnings before terminating any employee, even the one that showed up everyday drunk. Sad I stayed there as long as I did but it was decent money. And since when are severance packages and termination agreement or general release involved when it was a firing? Any advice?

Asked on 8/26/06, 12:29 am

Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

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Re: Termination

Take the severance and go. (Virginia is the very opposite of a communist state where workers generally have many protections. The Commonwealth

is not known for affording workers much in the way of such protections from arbitrary actions by employers.)

Answered on 8/26/06, 8:07 am

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