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    Question School Administrator Asked To Resign

    My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: California

    I was recently asked to resign from an administrative position in a surprise evaluation after four years at the school site and no prior evaluations.

    I have worked for this large public school district for more than 10 years and have established a quality reputation with excellent or outstanding prior evaluations. My evaluation was a complete surprise and did not follow the established district procedures. There were no prior conferences where expectations were stated or communicated. No other colleagues have been evaluated.

    I was directed to resign or face being terminated by the Board of Trustees. I now face a tremendous personal loss of income and damage to my reputation due to comments made by my supervisor that have affected my job searches.

    Do I have any recourse for wrongful termination and defamation of character? I am very concerned that this could happen to other employees in this organization.

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    Default Re: School Administrator Asked To Resign...

    Unless you have a bonafide cba or employment contract you can be terminated at any time for any or no reason at all. Except in direct violation of law I see no such law violatin here

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    Default Re: School Administrator Asked To Resign...

    Realistically, without your sharing a level of detail that you shouldn't provide in a public forum, any sensible person here is going to tell you to run your situation past an employment lawyer in your state for an evaluation of whether your rights were violated.

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    Default Re: School Administrator Asked To Resign

    As panther noted, in at-will employment you can be terminated at any time for any reason not prohibited by law (prohibited reasons: ie age, gender, religion) or unless you had a CBA or bona fide employment contract to the contrary.

    From what you posted, there is nothing illegal done by your employer. However; since we do not know the reason for your termination or what comments your supervisor made, etc. (we don't know details of the termination), it certainly won't hurt to run the termination by an employment attorney.

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