The Life Foundations Nexus
UNFAIR JOB TERMINATION
By The Life
Foundations Nexus
This year, a friend of mine was
let go from his job. His manager
notified him that he would be let go at some time in the not too distant
future. He was told that the president
of the company believed that they only needed one person to do the work he was
doing. This was untrue and was later
proven untrue when immediately after my friend was let go an email was
sent to all company employees, seeking to fill his position. My friend was also told that someone said he
was not making any contribution to the company. This was disproved by over five thousand documents, detailing all
that he had contributed to the company.
Finally, he was told that someone simply wanted him out of the company.
On the day he was let go, his
manager ambushed him. Instead of being
told that the company only needed one person to do the work he was doing and/or
that he had not made any contribution to the company, he was told that he had
failed in certain, other ways; specifically, coming in late, not working late,
and not learning his job quickly enough.
These supposed failings were disproved by the documents referred to
above. My friend asked if anything he
could say would prevent his termination.
He was told no.
What do you do in such a
case? First, forgive those who have
hurt you. Second, do not let the
injustice consume you. Instead, develop
a strategy. A part of this strategy is
to allot only so much time each day to address the injustice. Next, contact your state’s Department of
Labor if your termination was or possibly was due to discrimination. If they cannot help you, contact your
state’s Department of Human Rights. If
they cannot help you, contact a lawyer.
You always have the right to sue a former employer because of an unfair
job termination. If you lose your suit,
you can do any or all of the following and more:
In any case, you never
have to resign yourself to the situation.
You can always fight back!
Some steps you can take to
prevent or, at least, later find yourself better prepared to fight an unfair
job termination are:
More later.