Terminated for motion sickness?

[zebumoofoo]

Missouri, United States.

I was terminated today from a local government job. I was hired to be a driver for a field crew. I had to obtain a special license to drive within so many days of employment so I could be the driver of one of the crews. I never get sick while driving, ever. They had me start riding around with a couple of the other people. They always stuck me in the back seat. I would get motion sickness and vomit once a day while sitting in the back seat while riding. These episodes lasted only a couple of minutes per session, once a day. They did not interfere with productivity at all as we would just be driving around in the afternoons. These episodes did not effect my quality of work at all as it consisted of simply taking pictures of buildings. Everything else was done at an office on a computer and i was never sick there. I was pulled into the office this morning and told that they - - - - were going to cut to the chase, they were not sure that this was going to work out. They knew i was hired to drive and i wasn't, but they couldn't stand me getting sick every day. - - - - I was just wanting to know if this was legal on their part or if I have some sort of recourse here.

 

[adjusterjack]

Legal.

No recourse.

Sorry.

 

[cbg]

Of course it's legal.

 

[Chyvan]

if I have some sort of recourse here.

File for unemployment benefits.

 

[commentator]

I would suspect that as a local government employee, you were on some sort of probationary period, which is something they do to more or less determine if you are going to work out. Finding out that you have a habit of throwing up every day is just something that might cause them to decide they didn't want you to continue to work for them. But do file for unemployment insurance, which will be based upon the amount of covered wages you have based on everywhere you have worked in the past 18 months to two years, and tell them that you showed up every day and tried your best and they told you that things were not working out.