Texan1976 said:
I am assuming you were at will and had no contract?
An employer can terminate you for any reason or no reason at all, so long as it is not based on a protected class, in retaliation for asserting protected activity, or in violation of some whistleblower statute or something like the FMLA.
It can be unfair, but not against the law.
Most employment law cases are not that great because unless you just completely suck as an employee or have some niche position that is hard to find reasonably equivalent employment, you go out and get another job. And that job pays similar so you have low or no damages.
If Ed Sullivan turned down your case, either you have weak damages or there was no violation of the law.
Try G. Scott Fiddler. He is pretty good.
Or Gregg Rosenberg.
Let's be pretty frank about this - protected classes are just about everything but white males under the age of 40 these days, or at least it seems to be that way.
The rest of it can be subjective, and because Texas is an at-will state, even if you fall under some of the other umbrellas, you can be let go for something as simple as a violation of company rules and regs, violation of corporate ethics or any number of things that you signed your name to on your new hire paperwork that you probably didn't read.
Most of the time companies still require some sort of paperwork trail, and they may well have it even if you aren't aware of it. Not sure that there is any actual obligation to inform you of it or not (most companies do simply as a CYA and because most companies really don't like firing people). But in all reality, you can get let go for a first offense no matter how trivial it is should the powers that be at the company decide that is the case.
