Can you get fired for not being able to work on certain days?

Answer 1

Not if you are covered under the FMLA. Under the Family Medical Leave Act, you are protected from termination for taking up to 12 weeks of medical leave during any 12 month period. http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/fmla/ To qualify for FMLA leave, an employee must meet the following requirements: Been employed at that job for at least 12 months. Employment does not have to have been continuous. Worked at least 1,250 actual work hours during the 12-month period prior to the first day of the leave. Use only time actually worked in this calculations. Time paid but not worked (such as vacation, sick, etc.) does not count toward the 1,250 hours. Not already used 12 weeks of FMLA entitlement in the current calendar year. If an employee qualify for FMLA leave, the employer can not terminate that employee for being in the hospital and unable to work.

Answer 2

Yup ... If you were originally hired and agreed upon certain days for working and you suddenly cannot work those days, you can be terminated. It works like this ... the company you work for has certain deadlines for getting whatever it is they do, completed within a certain time frame. When that work can't get done because people can no longer work on their assigned days, then the company loses business, and layoffs would become a possibility.

The way the employer views your not being able to work on certain days is that they feel you are no longer interested in working for them, and you no longer need that job, so they terminate you and hire someone else who will work all those days. The employment market is quite bleak out there - too many peeps wanting jobs ... some want, and will get yours, unless you work the days the employer asks you to work.

Answer 3

of course