What can we do if my wife’s termination date has been moved up?
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What can we do if my wife’s termination date has been moved up?
My wife is being fired from her job of 19 years due to the boss’s wife finding
out about their short affair. My wife was initially told that she wouldn’t be fired but then was told that she had 3 months to leave. Now they are telling her to go by next week. They are telling her to sign papers and she’s leaving. We need help. We have texts and emails of documentation that she wouldn’t be fired and she had 3 months.
Asked on February 25, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Florida
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Unless there was a contractual obligation on her employer's part regarding her continued employment and, later, her departure date (e.g. in an employment contract or union agreement, etc.), it was merely an unenforceable promise and proposed termination date, respectively. The fact is that an "at will" worker can be discharged for any reason or nor reason at all, with or without notice. Accordingly, your wife's company can set the conditions of employment (and dismissal) much as it sees fit, absent some form of legally actionable discrimination.
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