Being that I work in a retail store as the manager, I can verify this.
California has an "at will" law that says any company can let go of
employees for any reason (I think even with no reason at all, highly
doubtful). I do believe it is different in the cases of companies that
have unions. The reason being that unions will fight for the part of the
employee making the company justify their actions. My friend told me once
that you can get legal representation through the government if you are not
a union member, but I have never looked into it, so I don't know for sure.
Anyway, if the union can justify that the termination was unlawful, in cases
like discrimination and such, the union could get the company into a lot of
trouble. So if the company isn't union, you will have to get legal
representation elsewhere (like the government), but it will be very
difficult if the company says that they fired you on that account, from what
I understand of the legal side of it.
on 4/17/01 10:44 AM, atomly at atomly@atomly.com wrote:
quoted 11 lines On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:38:30PM -0700, [alland.byallo] wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:38:30PM -0700, [alland.byallo] wrote:
>> in California, is it legal to fire somebody after they submitted their 2
>> week notice of resignation?
>
> Yea, unfortunately it is... This happened to quite a few people that I
> know during the whole tech slump right around the end of last year...
> They quit and the company decided that they would rather not spend what
> little money they had left on people who were leaving in two weeks.
>
> A few of my friends looked into it pretty hard and couldn't find any
> legal recourse.
Peter "Pachinko" Ý
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