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- From: zstewart@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zhahai Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Work Laws
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.005752.10827@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- >I'm not very familiar with the Law and regulations. Can A fire B
- >without a reason related to the work of B? For example, if I come to
- >work without a tie, can my boss fire me for that?
-
- Depends. Absent any other arrangements, yes. However, if the company your
- boss works for (or owns, a much rarer case) has an official policy about
- justifiable causes for termination and this firing violated the policy, you
- would have grounds for recourse.
-
- In a few enumerated areas other than tie wearing, local, state, or federal
- laws come into play (eg: if you were fired entirely because of your race).
- Out of the thousands of reasons for termination, only a handful are so
- restricted, and that number grows very slowly. I don't think "tie wearing"
- is going to make the list, so the paranoids can rest easy.
-
- However, the tobacco lobby pushed a bill in Colorado which was more from the
- other side (specifying that in general non-work activities should not cause
- termination, rather than specifying more details. I don't know all the facts
- about that.
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