Is it legal to suspend an employee without notice with no other management informed, then on the day the suspension is supposed to be up, cease all communication with the employee?
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Is it legal to suspend an employee without notice with no other management informed, then on the day the suspension is supposed to be up, cease all communication with the employee?
I was suspended witbout notice. When I finally got a hold of my GM after being ignored for days, he informed me that he was suspending me until the 6th of last month. However, once the 6th came all communication stopped. Now he won’t return my emails, calls or texts. When I went up to my place of employment none of my other managers knew anything regarding my suspension and they refused to get and call my GM for me to find out what was going on. I’m a single mother. I was under the impression that I still had my job and could return and I can’t file unemployment because technically there is no termination.
Asked on April 15, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Kansas
Answers:
M.D., Member, California and New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 7 years ago | Contributor
Do you have an employment contract or union agreement that prohibits this action? Does it in some way constitute a form of legally actionable discrimination? If not, then your treatment is perfectly permissable under the law. The fact is that as an "at will" worker, your company can set the conditions of employment much as it sees fit. This measn that an employee can be terminated/suspended for any reason or no reason at all, with or without notice.
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