Is it legal for an supervisor to put you on corrective action when you are not hitting sales goal even though call volumes are down?
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Is it legal for an supervisor to put you on corrective action when you are not hitting sales goal even though call volumes are down?
They keep raising sales goals; yet we are put in corrective action when only 3 or less people have made sales quotas within the last 6 months. I’m actually on a final but they haven’t fired me and they have threatened it.
Asked on June 23, 2011 under Employment Labor Law, Texas
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
Unless you have an employment contract to the contrary, you are an employee at will. An employee at will may be disciplined, suspended, put down for corrective action, demoted, transferred, or terminated at any time, for any reason. So unless you have some employment agreement or sales commission agreement or the like, which sets out specific grounds or procedures for corrective action (in which case, those grounds or procedures must be followed), then you may indeed be put down for corrective action, or have any other action taken against you, at any time by your employer, for any reason whatsoever. That there may be good explanations for any problems, like a lower call volume, does not matter.
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