Marine Fired After Being Called To Active Duty

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[InShanghai]

Marine Fired After Being Called To Active Duty

The pregnant wife of a California Marine reservist says she is considering legal action against her husband's former bosses, 10News reported.

Shari Moffitt says Hyundai fired her husband, Sgt. Clifford Moffitt, after he was called to active duty. Clifford Moffitt is a Marine Corps reservist who thought his job at Hyundai was secure.

"Instead he received a letter on the battle field, saying that Hyundai decided to terminate his employment two months after he left," Shari Moffitt said.

Shari Moffitt is also employed at Hyundai. She is talking with civil rights attorney Gloria Allred about possible legal action.

[canis major]

Hmm, Korean company firing a Marine.

[Centurion2000]

Shari Moffitt says Hyundai fired her husband, Sgt. Clifford Moffitt, after he was called to active duty. Clifford Moffitt is a Marine Corps reservist who thought his job at Hyundai was secure.

BIG MISTAKE .... she's going to wind up owning a good chunk of that Hyuandai shop when she's finished.

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[Las Vegas Dave]

Didn't Hyundai motors admit a few weeks ago that they gave North Korea $500,000,000 ?

[leadpenny]

Hyundai of San Diego? Military town?

Sounds like a Target of Opportunity for a FReep. They'll get the message when their sales drop off. Vote with your feet, San Diego FReepers.

[Longlines]

Federal law against just such action.

[goldstategop]

Yeah... some companies don't appreciate their freedom to make money is protected by our military.

[risk]

Federal law against just such action.

Let's throw the book at them.

[LouD]

I'd like to say that I'll boycott them - But I can't understand why anyone would buy one of their POS cars in the first place...

[AlaninSA]

I hope you're suggesting a protest, not a boycott.

A boycott of Hyundai by Freepers would be ineffective...it's not like any of us stoop so low as to drive one.

[topher]

The website for Hyundai USA is:

http://www.hyundaiusa.com/

On this site you will find a tab called "locate dealer nearest you". Click on that, and enter your zip. Then you can find a dealer to "vent" your opinion.

It is a shame we could find a few hackers to put the American Flag on the Hyundai site with "Sempi Fi" with it. It would be nice if I knew how to hack into such sites.

[Movemout]

They must have a totally incompetent HR director. Unless, they had a termination for cause process in the works before he was called to active duty; even then I would think that process would be suspended pending his return to civilian status. He would naturally have some avenues of appeal. I guess that their business practices are on a par with the quality of their vehicles. My brother bought two of them a while back. I asked him why he would be so foolish. His answer? "They are so cheap it is like buying a disposable lighter instead of a Zippo." Neither vehicle lasted five years.

[libertylover]

I'm happy to report that my employer took pretty much the opposite approach. Not only are reservist's jobs secure when they return, but their **full salary** is being paid while they are on active duty. Without this, many would be in deep financial doo-doo since military pay is quite low compared to private sector earnings.

[2timothy3.16]

South Korena auto maker Hyundai, has made the US haters list. Lest we forget.

[2timothy3.16]

We would like to include companies like yours on the US-lovers site, can you give us and independant news source to verify your companies position?

[lsee]

LOL! Reminds me of that Rush Limbaugh parody "In a Yugo"...

[No Truce With Kings]

"BIG MISTAKE .... she's going to wind up owning a good chunk of that Hyuandai shop when she's finished."

Yup. Hyuandai violated the Soldiers and Sailors act. It's been around since the 1940s, so they do not even have the excuse of having had a new law slip by them. Their only hope is to get a leftist Clinton-era judge who loathes the military more than evil-multinational-corporations.

[Sam Cree]

"Federal law against just such action"

I had thought so.

[wimpycat]

There might be valid reasons for terminating his employment, such as if his termination was part of a layoff or job elimination affecting more than just himself. Maybe his department was restructured or eliminated. If other, non-reservist employees were terminated at the same time, I don't think he'll have much of a case.

You can't terminate reservists because of the inconvenience of them being called to active duty, just like you can't terminate someone because they were injured on the job, or because they are pregnant, but that doesn't mean you can't legally terminate reservists on active duty or people out on worker's comp, or pregnant employees.