Fired / Let Go due to "Distraction of Husband's Deployment"

[dg2013]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arizona

Husband is deploying on a secret mission for 9 months and I was just let go by my employer (employer of only one month) due to "being distracted by my husband's deployment"

Any suggestions, legal advice, laws regarding this? Does it matter if it's a private company? Corporation?

Please help.

 

[Proserpina]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arizona

Husband is deploying on a secret mission for 9 months and I was just let go by my employer (employer of only one month) due to "being distracted by my husband's deployment"

Any suggestions, legal advice, laws regarding this? Does it matter if it's a private company? Corporation?

Please help.

File for unemployment.

(Your job is not protected by virtue of your spouse's career, if that's what you were asking?)

 

[Antigone*]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Arizona

Husband is deploying on a secret mission for 9 months and I was just let go by my employer (employer of only one month) due to "being distracted by my husband's deployment"

Any suggestions, legal advice, laws regarding this? Does it matter if it's a private company? Corporation?

Please help.

I know it is difficult to do, but when you get your next job, don't allow personal distractions to interfere.

At this point in time nothing illegal has happened.

 

[Silverplum]

I know it is difficult to do, but when you get your next job, don't allow personal distractions to interfere.

At this point in time nothing illegal has happened.

Always correct, that Mrs. Tigi.

http://www.azbar.org/workingwithlawyers/topics/yourrightsasanemployee

 

[Proserpina]

Darn, I missed the part about the OP being employed for 1 month. Might not even qualify for UI.

https://www.azdes.gov/main.aspx?menu=317&id=3834

 

[swalsh411]

That would depend on her wages in the lookback period which we don't know. She should file regardless.

 

[davew128]

Husband is deploying on a secret mission for 9 months and I was just let go by my employer (employer of only one month) due to "being distracted by my husband's deployment"

Apparently not so secret if your employer knows about it.

 

[commentator]

File a claim for unemployment benefits. They'll first see if you have enough wages in the last 18 months to set up a claim from everywhere you might have worked. Then they'll look at the reason you were terminated from your last job. If you were showing up and were doing your best, which is what you need to tell them, then it will probably be a performance based termination, and you have a fairly good chance of drawing benefits. But in spite of the stressful nature of your husband's employment, they have done nothing illegal in making a decision that you weren't working out in the job.