Is this wrongful Termination?

[lilyanne1]

We live in La. My husband delivers for a well known parcel service. They were required to deliver on the day of Hurricane Rita. As weather conditions worsened, managment calls him to come in early and hurry. On his way in the poor weather conditions caused him to wreck his work vehicle. The police report clearly states this was an unavoidable accident, due to hurricane conditions. My husband was then fired on the bases of failure to maintain control of his work vehicle. He refused to sign termination papers because he disagreed with reason for termination. He then files a grievence through his union to be reinstated without loss of wages. After 2 weeks, through no help from his union, ha is called back in and offered his job back with no back pay, and under the condition he admit fault for the accident. He has a spotless driving record, and no prior work violations. Also from what we understand, to be fired this would have had to been his 3rd offense. He was also fired before his employer even read the accident report. Is this wrongful termination, and shoul we pursue it?

 

[BelizeBreeze]

This has nothing to do with wrongful termination. Look up the term in google.

 

[lilyanne1]

wrongful termination

Why do you say it is not wrongful termination? He was terminated without proven cause, and the termination directly contradicts union policy. Maybe not wrongful termination, but something was surely done incorrectly here.

 

[BelizeBreeze]

Why do you say it is not wrongful termination? He was terminated without proven cause, and the termination directly contradicts union policy. Maybe not wrongful termination, but something was surely done incorrectly here.

This has nothing to do with wrongful termination. Look up the term in google.

 

[Sockeye]

Why do you say it is not wrongful termination? He was terminated without proven cause, and the termination directly contradicts union policy. Maybe not wrongful termination, but something was surely done incorrectly here.

Un-just, un-fair, un-ethical, un-professional, un-caring, un-etc, but not un-lawful.

Your husbands best options would be to appeal this through corporate methods or through his union.

 

[cbg]

Because the legal definition of wrongful termination does NOT mean without proven cause, and it does NOT mean in violation of union policy. To qualify as a wrongful termination, the employer has to have violated the LAW, not the union policy, in firing him.

This is not a wrongful term no matter how you slice it.