Firing With No Prior Discipline
tonia
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Hello forum One of my managers fired her employee without HR approval.
This employee was not given permission to have time off and decided to leave that day anyway, leaving her assigned children unattended. We covered it of course, but the DON fired her due to job abandonment.
She did tell the DON that she was leaving and was told that it was not approved and if she decided to leave, she would be terminated.
Was my Manager wrong?
This employee was not given permission to have time off and decided to leave that day anyway, leaving her assigned children unattended. We covered it of course, but the DON fired her due to job abandonment.
She did tell the DON that she was leaving and was told that it was not approved and if she decided to leave, she would be terminated.
Was my Manager wrong?
Comments
If you are in an at-will state, you are only in a pickle if the employee had a protected reason for leaving, and if other employees are, and always have been, treated similarly.
It would have to be a pretty good reason to leave children unattended and not expect to be terminated.
I would just counsel the manager to keep HR in the loop next time. Though the employee was wrong, your manager could have placed you all at risk.