Is this even legal? Refusing to sign reprimands was Re: Raw deal or not

[Guest guest]

> I refused to sign this written repremand and was immediatly suspended without

pay, pending further review of this call and my actions.

> McGee, EMT-P

>

As a former business owner I was told that employee's had the right to refuse

signing disciplinary statements and that further discipline could not be handed

out because they refused. That all you did is document the refusal with a

witness present and place it in the file.

Has this recently changed? Or was my business attorney incorrect? Or was he

just using common sense and saving me and the employees a headache?

Renny Spencer

[Guest guest]

The employee does have the right to refuse, the employer then has the right to

terminate/suspend. As long as the employer does not violate discrimination laws,

what could possibly be illegal about disciplining them?

 

Your attorney was giving you excellent CYA practices.....

 

Now that said, the REASON that the person in the thread was disciplined is (in

my opinion) illegal.

Hatfield

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but

learning how to make facts live. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Subject: Is this even legal? Refusing to sign reprimands was Re:

Raw deal or not

To: texasems-l

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 4:08 PM

 

> I refused to sign this written repremand and was immediatly suspended without

pay, pending further review of this call and my actions.

> McGee, EMT-P

>

As a former business owner I was told that employee's had the right to refuse

signing disciplinary statements and that further discipline could not be handed

out because they refused. That all you did is document the refusal with a

witness present and place it in the file.

Has this recently changed? Or was my business attorney incorrect? Or was he just

using common sense and saving me and the employees a headache?

Renny Spencer

[Guest guest]

The employee does have the right to refuse, the employer then has the right to

terminate/suspend. As long as the employer does not violate discrimination laws,

what could possibly be illegal about disciplining them?

 

Your attorney was giving you excellent CYA practices.....

 

Now that said, the REASON that the person in the thread was disciplined is (in

my opinion) illegal.

Hatfield

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but

learning how to make facts live. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Subject: Is this even legal? Refusing to sign reprimands was Re:

Raw deal or not

To: texasems-l

Date: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 4:08 PM

 

> I refused to sign this written repremand and was immediatly suspended without

pay, pending further review of this call and my actions.

> McGee, EMT-P

>

As a former business owner I was told that employee's had the right to refuse

signing disciplinary statements and that further discipline could not be handed

out because they refused. That all you did is document the refusal with a

witness present and place it in the file.

Has this recently changed? Or was my business attorney incorrect? Or was he just

using common sense and saving me and the employees a headache?

Renny Spencer