Can I be fired for not going to a doctor’s appointment made by my employer?
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Can I be fired for not going to a doctor’s appointment made by my employer?
I worked for a temp agency for a factory a little under 3 minths got sent home for heat exhaustion. I came back the next day but still wasn’t feeling good so they sent me to medical. They told me they had made a doctor’s appointment for me at a hospital nearly an hour and a half away and that I had to go straight there. I went home to let my girlfriend know what was going on and we decided that I should see my PCP. I told my work that I did want to go to their doctor and they said that as long as I came back to work the next week with a doctor’s note saying that I was OK to work, it was all good. Well the next day they called me and told me that they were terminating me for not complying with their procedure. Can they legally let me go for this?
Asked on September 22, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Illinois
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Unless you had a union agreement or employment contract, you were an "at will" worker which meant that you could have been terminated for any reason or no reason at all, with or without notice. The fact is that a company can set the conditions of the workplace much as it sees fit (absent some form of actionable discrimination).
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