If I was fired without a notice, what should I do?
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If I was fired without a notice, what should I do?
I was hired by an IT startup, after which I resigned from my previous employer to join them. I started about 16 months ago as an Inside sales manager. The training period lasted for 10 days. On joining the new organization, I tried to the my best of abilities to perform better than expected. My performance was monitored far than the fellow colleagues who joined with me. Then all of a sudden, the next month, I was terminated from my role and asked to leave the office that very day with my belongings due to my performance of the previous 5 days. and that too I not given a notice period so that I could be made aware of the fact that my performance was not up to the mark. The structure of organization is such, that still I have not received the relieving letter. I earlier had a job when I joined and now I am unemployed.
Asked on June 9, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Minnesota
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Did your ex-employer's action violate the terms of any exisiting union agreement or employment contract? Did your treatment constitute any form of legally actionable discrimination? If not, then your termination was legal. The fact is that in an "at will" employment relationship, a company can set the conditions of the workplace much as it sees fit. This includes who to fire and why. In fact, an employer can discharge a worker for any reason or no reason at all, with or without notice.
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