What you feel is irrelevant but besides that, what you describe is not ILLEGAL harassment, even if you could convince somebody it is harassment. Her boss can make her clean toilets with a toothbrush if they want but that is not illegal harassment
What you feel is irrelevant but besides that, what you describe is not ILLEGAL harassment, even if you could convince somebody it is harassment. Her boss can make her clean toilets with a toothbrush if they want but that is not illegal harassment
This is debateable. Changing an employee's job duties especially like what you suggest sets the stage for constructive discharge. An employee not employed in that capacity would have every right to say, "no," and collect unemployment. Depending on the motivation for the change, that starts to look like wrongful termination.
Unless there is a very real reason to believe that the adverse treatment is based in a characteristic protected by law, NO, there is no wrongful termination. It takes far more that collecting UI (and I don't believe anyone suggested that UI was not a possibility) to create a wrongful term.
sure there is a good possibility of collecting UI but in itself, it is not illegal and would not allow the basis for any legal action against the employer. It would take a lot more than the fact I made you scrub toilets because I just didn't like you and well, somebody has to do it and I choose you.
Of course if there was an underlying protected class that was the reason, that is a totally different situation.
Getting into your feelings about an unfavored action does not always warrant legal recourse, especially for matters like this one. The only thing your homegirl can do is to keep her job until she is fired/discharged for an optional reason that is not misconduct on herself is to keep doing the healthy and legal things she is asked/told to do. Best luck to you and her.
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Or make her shovel dog crap and put it in her pants. Either way, this type of action is clearly legal under the at-will doctrine.