If my position is eliminated and I’m offered a position out of state with a guarantee of reimbursement for travel and take it but then am not reimbursed, what can I do?
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If my position is eliminated and I’m offered a position out of state with a guarantee of reimbursement for travel and take it but then am not reimbursed, what can I do?
The owner of the company told me that I could have just stayed until my position was gone and then collect unemployment and now this manager that I transferred to told me I was going to have all these things and in the end he provided the opposite of everything he told me about the position. Now I lost my chance to collect because I have to resign. Is this fair?
Asked on September 16, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Pennsylvania
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
There is nothing you can do unless you had a written employment contract for a definite term (e.g. a one-year contract) which guaranteed you those benefits, etc. If you did, you can enforce that contract in court by a "breach of contract" lawsuit; the employer must provide what it contracted to provide. However, without a written employment contract, all employment is employment at will in this country: the employer may change its terms, conditions, compensation, benefits, etc. at any time, for any reason, and can back on what it orally promised. So without a written contract, you would have no recourse.
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