Dozens fired after skipping work to participate in 'A Day Without Immigrants' protests

CNBC ^ | February 20, 2017 | Sarah Whitten

[EveningStar]

As numerous restaurant employees were given leave on Thursday to march in "A Day Without Immigrants" protests, others returned to their posts Friday to discover that they were out of a job.

Across the U.S. employers fired hundreds of protesters who skipped work to participate in rallies.

[McGavin999]

No call no show is grounds for dismissal at just about every place across this country. Business owners have customers and clients that expect service. Period

[stars & stripes forever]

[The company noted in a statement that the employees were not terminated for attending the protests but for being absent.]

I hope other companies take a cue and fire employees who take off work whenever they feel like it. Employment contracts mean something.

[ctdonath2]

Sounds like most of them were a matter of just not showing up to work and not notifying the employer accordingly. That’s typically a firing offense, short of medical incapacitation. Nothing to do with why they weren’t there - they weren’t and didn’t notify.

Corrected headline: “Expendable Workers Discover They’re Expendable the Hard Way”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I was in the work field, we had such a huge turnover that if you DID NOT call in to report an absence you were automatically terminated.

[econjack]

Another example of how people refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. They were warned and chose to ignore the warning. Such things have consequences...like losing your job. As they say:

He chose poorly.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Across the U.S. employers fired hundreds of protesters
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Just the other day it was 60, now it’s hundreds.

If I did not show up for work, I would have been fired.

They should have expected it.

Some were even told they would be fired if they did not show up.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I definitely would have fired anybody who was an illegal immigrant who wanted to skip work — I mean, skipping work was like a direct admission you were illegal, and companies can get in trouble for hiring illegals.

Not sure why immigrants wanted to protest, nobody is talking about kicking immigrants out of the country, only illegal trespassers.

I think we should adopt the left’s way — and change the name to “illegal trespassers”. They aren’t “immigrants” because they did not “immigrate”, they are trespassers in our country.

[AppyPappy]

We had an employee who was previously a one man shop. We had to tell her to call in when she wasn’t coming to work. She had no idea that was even a thing.

And it still took several tellings as she viewed her constant illnesses as “None of our business”.

[shadeaud]

Can a person collect unemployment benefits if he/she/it was fired for failing to notify the employer prior to an absence?

[Fido969]

Lefties: "You need us! See how you do without us!"

Employer: "You're fired."

Lefties: "Racists!"

[RegulatorCountry]

Generally speaking, an individual fired with cause is ineligible, as far as I’m aware.

[Red Badger]

Headline should be:

U.S. Employers discover they really CAN do without illegal immigrants....................

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not in Virginia, it varies from state to state.

[Duchess47]

I have an acquaintance who took the day without immigrants off several years ago when they pulled that. She is not illegal or even an immigrant, just liberal, half Mexican, born and raised in El Paso.

She is also “standing with the spirit people” in the Dakota Pipeline protest because her husband is 1/32 Lakota so that makes whatever she hears about the righteousness about this protest obviously correct.

[rktman]

Awwwwwww!

[mrs. a]

DOZENS fired! Oh, the horror! Imagine the shockwave that will ripple throughout the economy!

Seriously, though, I wonder how many workers are fired on any normal day...more than “dozens,” I would suspect.

[raybbr]

“” ...and change the name to “illegal trespassers”. They aren’t “immigrants” because they did not “immigrate”, they are trespassers in our country.”””

Is there such a thing as “legal trespassers”?

They are invaders plain and simple.

[rktman]

And if it’s a union shop. We used to have to build a case developing a pattern over time. Even then it was sometimes difficult to terminate someone.

[albie]

On “Day without a mexican” day 10 years ago I fired Paco on my construction crew. He participated in the protest, didn’t show to work and was told “ you now have time to protest every day”.