Cambridge1
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Massachusetts
I was terminated from my position at a Union staffed media job for an omission of a piece of boilerplate on a press release. They claimed it was "Deliberate misconduct" because my boss said we had a telephone conversation in which I told him that I sent out the material correctly, and that me telling him that was a lie. That conversation never happened in the way he described, and I appealed the decision through my Union.
My employer has been stalling with the union for almost four months now. First taking a month to send them my employee records, then taking another almost two months to respond to their request for a hearing (they still haven't responded). The main issue is that the employer is trying to break the union through prolonged contract negotiations etc. and both the union and my employer aren't really worried about my case. In any case, my union is pretty weak and only really affiliated with my former place of work (not a larger organization).
To top it off, before I was fired, I was in a department that shrunk from three people, to two and then just to me. Now that I have been fired, they have eliminated the department completely. Is there any argument here for a "de-facto layoff"? Is that a thing? I would be grateful for any help.
I was terminated from my position at a Union staffed media job for an omission of a piece of boilerplate on a press release. They claimed it was "Deliberate misconduct" because my boss said we had a telephone conversation in which I told him that I sent out the material correctly, and that me telling him that was a lie. That conversation never happened in the way he described, and I appealed the decision through my Union.
My employer has been stalling with the union for almost four months now. First taking a month to send them my employee records, then taking another almost two months to respond to their request for a hearing (they still haven't responded). The main issue is that the employer is trying to break the union through prolonged contract negotiations etc. and both the union and my employer aren't really worried about my case. In any case, my union is pretty weak and only really affiliated with my former place of work (not a larger organization).
To top it off, before I was fired, I was in a department that shrunk from three people, to two and then just to me. Now that I have been fired, they have eliminated the department completely. Is there any argument here for a "de-facto layoff"? Is that a thing? I would be grateful for any help.