What is the name of your state? Connecticut
I just started a new job last week. The pay was much less than what I was hoping to make, but after being unemployed for 2 months, I took what I could get.
After starting, I learned that the benefits were not nearly sufficient, full-time did not equal 40 hours a week, and that raises are given rarely and in minimal increments.
On friday, I was talking with another employee in the office about what I could expect from staying at the job. I also mentioned to her that I had applied for another job before this one, and that if it was offered to me I would have to take it because the pay was almost double what I was making at the current job. She informed me that I could not expect to be making anywhere near what I was hoping for a very long time. She said that she hoped I would stay, but could completely understand leaving for financial reasons.
This morning I went into work, where after a half hour of being on the clock I was called into the boss's office. She asked me if I was happy there and I said "Yeah, I guess. It's only been a week." She then told me that the employee I had spoken with came to her and told her that I was treating this job as a "stepping stone" and that I had no intention of staying on for the long haul, that I was just working there until I found something better.
She then told me that this caused her to feel she couldn't trust me, and that I was fired. I was not given the opportunity to rebut this, so she basically fired me because of something another employee told her I said.
Is this legal? Because I technically was hired by her, I am now unable to collect unemployment in CT as far as I can tell because I have now worked for more than 1 employer in the last 6 months.
I just started a new job last week. The pay was much less than what I was hoping to make, but after being unemployed for 2 months, I took what I could get.
After starting, I learned that the benefits were not nearly sufficient, full-time did not equal 40 hours a week, and that raises are given rarely and in minimal increments.
On friday, I was talking with another employee in the office about what I could expect from staying at the job. I also mentioned to her that I had applied for another job before this one, and that if it was offered to me I would have to take it because the pay was almost double what I was making at the current job. She informed me that I could not expect to be making anywhere near what I was hoping for a very long time. She said that she hoped I would stay, but could completely understand leaving for financial reasons.
This morning I went into work, where after a half hour of being on the clock I was called into the boss's office. She asked me if I was happy there and I said "Yeah, I guess. It's only been a week." She then told me that the employee I had spoken with came to her and told her that I was treating this job as a "stepping stone" and that I had no intention of staying on for the long haul, that I was just working there until I found something better.
She then told me that this caused her to feel she couldn't trust me, and that I was fired. I was not given the opportunity to rebut this, so she basically fired me because of something another employee told her I said.
Is this legal? Because I technically was hired by her, I am now unable to collect unemployment in CT as far as I can tell because I have now worked for more than 1 employer in the last 6 months.
