What to do if I mistakenly thought that my place of work was closed for a holiday and I took off?
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What to do if I mistakenly thought that my place of work was closed for a holiday and I took off?
I worked at a company through an agency. Since I started, their numbers improved, my work and accuracy was praised, they introduced me to higher-ups, etc. On Veteran’s Day, I didn’t go to work as every company where I had previously worked had Veteran’s Day off. The next day, I went into work at 4:00 am a Tuesday I did payroll, and every Monday I would go in at 4am instead of 7:30 am to finish certified payroll. Being I didn’t work the day before on a holiday, I figured the Tuesday was treated like a Monday. Once I got to work, upon certain details like emails, timecards, etc., I found to my horror that there actually was work the previous day. I had never been provided a company holiday list and this was the only place I had ever worked that didn’t have Veteran’s Day off. You would have thought that by the fact I came in at 4am, it was clearly an accident I had never had issues with tardiness or punctuality at all before, issues with my work or any other issues. And of course, I would never just
Asked on January 7, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, California
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
You have no claim here unless your treatment violated the terms of an employment contract or union agreement. The fact is that most work relationships are "at will". Accordingly, a company can set the conditions of work much as it sees fit. This means that you could have been terminated for any reason or no reason at all. Further, a for not being "officially" terminated, you did not need to be given a written notice of dismissal, not scheduling you for any work was enough.
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
You have no claim here unless your treatment violated the terms of an employment contract or union agreement. The fact is that most work relationships are "at will". Accordingly, a company can set the conditions of work much as it sees fit. This means that you could have been terminated for any reason or no reason at all. Further, a for not being "officially" terminated, you did not need to be given a written notice of dismissal, not scheduling you for any work was enough.
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