Employment-at-Will Doctrine Essay

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Employment-At-Will Doctrine Describe what steps you would take to address the following scenario involving labor and laws. As it is stated in a given scenario, Jennifer took a day off to observe a religious holiday with no manager consent during “tax reason” while being informed that she was not permitted without management agreement. This can be a basis for taking disciplinary actions against her. There was a chance that if she had spoken to management about her concern of taking day off for religious observance, she could get permission to take this day off. Being Jennifer’s supervisor, I would consider speaking to her about policies and procedures for time off, reminding her that there are times during a year such as “tax season” which is extremely busy, requiring previous arrangements for taking days off. In the future she should consult with her manager regarding plans for taking a day off for religious observance ahead of time. I would give her a warning if this performance happens again as it might be a cause of termination of her employment. All of the verbal warnings would be documented and placed in her file. In addition, I would also provide her a copy of the employee handbook with all procedures for calling in or asking for time off as well as the employment-at will doctrine (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012). Regarding Jennifer’s attempt to form a union, I would not take any actions excluding one: asking her not to do this during work hours, as adjustments to the employment-at-will gives the right to employees to organize and form unions (Halbert & Ingulli, 2012). Should the firm be legally allowed to fire her based on the employment-at-will doctrine? Why or why not? Since Jenifer took the day of due to her religious holiday, it is not clear if firing her should be a good action taken by her firm because of religious freedom guaranteed by Title
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