Asking for advice for a possible unlawful termination
Basically, my older brother got his first engineering job just over week ago and today he told me he had resigned.
We were devastated because we thought that him finally landed a job can mean that my mom and dad can not work as hard to make sure the light stays on (We’re pretty much completely broke).
Apparently, he was given warnings for yawning. Today he was asked to resign because he was seen as unproductive due to his yawning at work, which I think is ridiculous.
My older brother, not being well literate in employee’s rights, unknowingly wrote a resignation letter upon their request, thus rendering him unable to apply for unemployment benefits.
All I want to know is, can a company fire an employee for yawning, even though it is written in their employee’s handbook/policy?
Netizen’s comments
- Is there evidence company asking for resignation letter? Like email etc?
- (OP) Unfortunately, it was his manager’s mouth. This makes me think that it was not the first time they did this.
- If they’re taking issue with his yawning they’re probably not worth working for anyway.
- I understand you want to support your brother, but are you really sure his contract got terminated due to his yawning?
- Sounds a bit ridiculous to me.
Is your brother being truthful or is there something else besides the yawning?
Even if he is, then the company actually force him to quit just for yawning, it’s not a company worth working for anyway. - Good that he got out of that toxic company early
- If they said by word cant do anything bro. If there is proof of them asking your brother to resign for yawning then can do something.
- Nb if yawning can get fired, then if fall asleep is it must sentence to death?