No notice of termination

[nscot]

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

 

[nscot]

Hello, I'm a student who works at the Starbucks on university grounds during the school year. The Starbucks is owned by the company that runs the other food industries in the campus building but has its own manager. I didn't get any communication during the summer and found out I had been removed from the employee Facebook page and not written on the schedule for the next school year. I contacted my employer via text (our usual mode of communication) and she never replied. I found out from a colleague I had not been put on the schedule. Is it legal for her to fire me without reasoning or exploration?

 

[adjusterjack]

Is it legal for her to fire me without reasoning or exploration?

As you grow up you will learn a lot of things about life.

One of which is called "at will" employment which means you can be fired with no notice, any notice, for any reason, or no reason as long as it doesn't violate any anti-discrimination laws.

It was, and always will be, up to you to follow up on things that are important to you.

Self preservation is nobody's business but your own.

 

[Chyvan]

fire me

File for unemployment. You might have worked and earned enough to qualify for a benefit, and you should be considered able and available until school starts in the fall.

 

[cbg]

Is it legal for her to fire me without reasoning or exploration?

Yes. Google at-will employment

 

[The Occultist]

File for unemployment. You might have worked and earned enough to qualify for a benefit, and you should be considered able and available until school starts in the fall.

I respectfully disagree; the OP implied that no hours were worked during the summer break bringing the total average hours to a close proximity to zero (the hours used to calculate the average are not necessarily based over the previous year, but based specifically on x number of days prior to the filing, so this will not bode well for the OP). Since not enough hours were worked, unemployment benefits are highly unlikely to be granted.

 

[Chyvan]

I respectfully disagree;

You can do that. I said, "might." I don't know Indiana's formula. In a lot of state's waiting 3 to 6 months isn't a big deal until it comes time to try to get a 2nd-year claim. The thing is, if he doesn't apply, he for sure gets nothing. If he does apply, and gets nothing, then so what? However, if he does get something, then lucky him, and it takes the sting out of losing his job.

https://uplink.in.gov/CSS/BenefitEstimatorInteractive.htm?q1=1500&q2=1500&q3=1500&q4=1500&q5=0.0

I just used IN's benefit calculator. What makes you think that what you made X number of days is a factor? They use a base period just like most any other state?

 

[commentator]

From the sound of this situation to me, the OP wasn't working this summer, came back or is coming back to school and was counting on having this position in the fall, and finding that it isn't going to happen this year. I also strongly doubt that unemployment insurance will be a factor here. Most of these college food service operated things (even Starbucks) have the student worker market clearly delineated and defined, and their unemployment is done by contractors. But of course one can always file and see.

 

[cbg]

As I have often said before, it can do no harm to file. The worst that can happen is that he's denied, in which case he's no worse off than if he never applied in the first place.

 

[The Occultist]

If he does apply, and gets nothing, then so what?

That's fair; you are correct.