What are my rights if my employeragreed to keep me on after a failed background checkbut 6 months later fired me because of it?

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What are my rights if my employeragreed to keep me on after a failed background checkbut 6 months later fired me because of it?

I was hired at my job and worked there for 3 years. My company decided to do background checks for the past 10 years and my check failed. My boss agreed to keep me on and said they will do it again in 6 months which would have been 10 years after my felony. The check came back and it still had the felony on it and I was fired. What are my legal options because I turned down employment after my boss said they would keep me on? My boss also said that they would go to bat for me if a client questioned my background.

Asked on May 7, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Arizona

Answers:

M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 12 years ago | Contributor

I am so sorry.  Unfortunately if you are an employee "at will" meaning without an employment contract then your employer can fire you for any reason, just as you could quit for any reason.  I think that what you are trying to state here is that you had some form of agreement that prevented him from firing you. But from the way that you have phrased the question he did what he said: he waited the 6 months to see if the felony came off in the 10 year span.  It did not (which makes me think that your dates may be off)  and then he probably had no choice but to let you go under rules he did not make.  Again, I am sorry. 


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