What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Indiana
I was recently wrongfully terminated from a job where I was working with individuals who had disabilities. I was working with a man who I was only assigned to occasionally. I wasn't aware that his full time staff had been failing to administer a one of his primary medications to control panic attacks and hallucinations. I did my job that day as I always do, bathing him, cooking for him and talking to him. But near the end of my shift, he attacked his housemate, without warning, because he said the housemate was planning on killing him. Another staff and I physically tore the two apart and no one was injured. But a week later, never hearing from my supervisor that I had done anything wrong, he called me in and said I was fired because I didn't do enough to prevent the attack. I was never even warned that my client was violent nor trained on how to prevent it. Can my supervisor fire me?
I was recently wrongfully terminated from a job where I was working with individuals who had disabilities. I was working with a man who I was only assigned to occasionally. I wasn't aware that his full time staff had been failing to administer a one of his primary medications to control panic attacks and hallucinations. I did my job that day as I always do, bathing him, cooking for him and talking to him. But near the end of my shift, he attacked his housemate, without warning, because he said the housemate was planning on killing him. Another staff and I physically tore the two apart and no one was injured. But a week later, never hearing from my supervisor that I had done anything wrong, he called me in and said I was fired because I didn't do enough to prevent the attack. I was never even warned that my client was violent nor trained on how to prevent it. Can my supervisor fire me?
