My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: California.
I do not wish to impose on the many wonderful volunteers in this forum but I have a question that is not immediate in nature, but it also not hypothetical. It is basically a sanity check (although I have been in the workforce for several decades, I have usually been self-employed and thus lack experience being an employee).
I am a salaried, exempt, "at will" employee who is being encouraged to express opinions about how well I think the company is being run. However, while the company says it prides itself on transparency and ethics, numerous people have been terminated in recent years for reasons which the company refuses to discuss, claiming "legal concerns". I suspect that some of those terminated people did not think upper management was doing a great job.
It seems to me there is a fundamental incompatibility between "employee participation" / "transparency" / labor law. As I see it, my employers are saying they want my opinion, but can terminate me for having that opinion, while not revealing that my departure is because of that opinion.
Am I being paranoid, or is just the way companies behave these days?
Many thanks for any light you can shed...tz
I do not wish to impose on the many wonderful volunteers in this forum but I have a question that is not immediate in nature, but it also not hypothetical. It is basically a sanity check (although I have been in the workforce for several decades, I have usually been self-employed and thus lack experience being an employee).
I am a salaried, exempt, "at will" employee who is being encouraged to express opinions about how well I think the company is being run. However, while the company says it prides itself on transparency and ethics, numerous people have been terminated in recent years for reasons which the company refuses to discuss, claiming "legal concerns". I suspect that some of those terminated people did not think upper management was doing a great job.
It seems to me there is a fundamental incompatibility between "employee participation" / "transparency" / labor law. As I see it, my employers are saying they want my opinion, but can terminate me for having that opinion, while not revealing that my departure is because of that opinion.
Am I being paranoid, or is just the way companies behave these days?
Many thanks for any light you can shed...tz
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