liked my job till now, any good lawers out there?....

I feel for you. I'm going through something similar. I was unexpectedly terminated for something an employee (who doesn't like me) said he saw me do. It's a ridiculous claim and something I'd never do. My biggest problem with this is that they never investigated, never called safety or risk management. This was an incident that would require the EPA to get involved if it had actually happened, yet no one looked into it at all. I'm the one who called safety regarding my termination and told him what was going on. It sucks that companies can get away with treating us this way.

 

Yeah, seriously.

 

To bigblu in WA:

Well then, Ace, I reckon you can go ahead and cancel your physical damage insurance on the big truck, cancel the comp/collision on your autos, and, what the heck, while your at it, drop your home owners coverage on your house. You'll be fine, since nothing has or ever will happen to little 'ole perfect you.

The rest of us live in a world that has a 'risk' side to a balanced equation.

The responsible manager can choose to either give a written warning with or without days off unpaid or can terminate him with no notice. Manager can mandate retraining, safety awareness classes(eg. Smith System).

Manager can rethink his hiring/interview process to select better driver employees. Manager can work with customers to make delivery areas safer. Manager can purchase old beat up day cab for deliveries.

Manager CANNOT withhold employee pay to cover manager's business costs/losses! Unless he likes writing really big checks once the Dept. of Labor hears about it!

Businesses endure RISK. Revenue must cover a certain amount of forecastable and expected loss. Shifting that risk to an employee, who has no say in raising his revenue to account for the added risk, is a cowardly business owner!

This is BUSINESS; now straighten up and fly right!

 

I hope you find a better company, anything can happen, some people will find out the hard way too. Things happen for the first time to some people that have never had any issues before . Times are still tough too so companies start trying to influence employees to quit so they can downsize and still appear
to be, God fearing.

 

That would be perfectly true... But it gets better. If you read the EEOC compliance manual, it states a worker cannot be penalized if a problem is caused by the employer. For instance, an employer cannot withhold resources and blame you for not making quota.

The entire employment law is based on "reasonable". If a reasonable person would acknowledge that it was improper to have an OTR truck doing a daycab run... Then the employer is liable. There are no technicalities in employment law. Its all about if a reasonable person would also side with you.

Its kinda absurd that we need to know 200 laws just on individual inspection points alone, but managers don't have a managers license that proves they know basic laws about their job. I know this is America, but you don't put someone's life in your hands without proper education. What exactly did they learn in college if they didn't learn even basic rules of managing?

I mean, it's not even my job to know EEOC law, but I still had time to read the manual. Can these guys who read 300 page college textbooks not use google and read the few dozen pages that directly apply to their job?

Seriously, why the huge double standard? Aren't college grads supposed to have higher standards, not lower?

Not to insult managers, but I think business school is letting down our students somewhere along the line.

 

So well said and written, darn near brought a tear to my eye. So true.

 

.....i like this guy ,he's on target ....way to go brother

 

Most small business owners/managers never studied management in college. Good management is kind of an art you learn from other managers, and from experience. Management school is still very important though.

One of the most useful classes is Personnel Law, then also, Business Law I & II. Legal problems become costly real quick! The laws are always changing and new case law evolves with the times, so, it's a good idea to attend seminars and engage in independent study to stay current. The WWW is a cheap, powerful tool to do this for starters, but there is nothing like attending a college level class lead by a retired judge or litigator, whom is an expert, to really challenge the students and make them work.

 

I tend to like "Management" that has worked their way up through the ranks (on the job experience). Of course those guys are a crap shoot too....once they forget what it was like at the bottom.