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You can't just not show up for work for 2 days without even telling the employer. Having a baby is not an excuse.
He did tell his employer. They didn't care.
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In the month that followed, Austin said that he did not miss a shift and took on other’s shifts. On Dec. 28, however, Austin said he couldn’t cover for another employee who had canceled because of the snowstorm. He said he needed to attend a doctor’s appointment for his wife, as they were expecting the birth of their baby boy any day.
When Austin was scheduled to work on Friday and Saturday later that week, his 26-year-old wife, Lindsay Austin, went into labor.
He told his boss he couldn’t come in.
“I didn’t want to make it seem like I’m trying to miss work or something,” Austin said. “The second day I told my boss, ‘My wife is still in labor,’ and he just said, ‘You’re forcing my hand, if you aren’t in work by 8 tomorrow we are going to terminate you.’ ”
The article says he just started the part time job and was on a 90 day probation period. NH is an " employment at will" state, where either party may terminate employment at any time for an or no reason.
He did not report to work as a part time security guard over the New Year Weekend, when it's challenging to find a replacement. His employer is a commercial contract security provider. Their customers don't care why a guard did not show. It's up to the employer to meet its contractual obligations.
No one knows if he made his employer aware of this ahead of time or if he called in or just did not show.
In any event, looks like this may work out for him.
The link only shares 1 side of the story.
Most companies would have accommodated him. Unless there are other issues that happened before the event.
Poor job performance, reliability issues, etc. Without hearing both sides I can't say who is wrong in this.
where he’d started a part-time job three weeks earlier, told him that if he didn’t report to work by 8 a.m. the next morning, he would be fired, says Lamar.
You can legally fire someone and still be wrong. This company was wrong.
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