Idiot power tripping boss just lost her job.
Not knowing the law isn’t an excuse for breaking it.
Boss looks like a typical alternate lifestyler to me. I’m thinking there’s more to this story. I’m also thinking this will get reversed and the samitch shop supervisor on the power trip will be taken down a notch. having said alll that, in this country nowadays maybe not............
Back around 1978, my stamping plant in Detroit sold off its wheel and brake division, laying off several hundred employees. Most of them had low seniority so they had recall rights of 3 years. Meaning, they remained on layoff status until the 3 years expired then they were terminated.
One of those employees subsequently joined the Army for 4 years. Following his discharge, he returned to the plant to try and start work again. Since his job no longer existed and his 3 year recall rights had expired, we had no choice but to tell him he had been terminated. Technically we were correct because that was the language in the UAW contract and the plant UAW bargaining committee agreed with us.
Well, he appealed it to I don’t remember who but ultimately it ended up in the hands of an Arbitrator who ruled that the company was wrong in terminating him and ordered us to reinstate him to layoff status and recommence the 3 year recall right clause effective with his date of military discharge.
He was then able to sign up for the “layoff pool” and was placed in another department when an opening became available.
This was a very unusual case because the law ultimately superseded the company’s bargaining agreement and granted this guy super seniority over everyone else he got laid off with who ultimately were terminated.
Ironically enough, the guy was fired within four months for excessive absenteeism. (Knowing the guy's employment record before he got laid off, I knew that was coming...)