An employee fired by Amber is threatening a wrongful-termination lawsuit. Mike Andes says it's likely an empty threat since the company is in an at-will state and doesn't need a reason to fire someone, but warns about potential worker's comp claims and investigators.
We let a gentleman go this morning. Now he's threatening to sue us. He's saying he's wrongly terminated and he's coming for our company. And have your lawyer ready.
Yeah. Okay, so from a legal perspective, did you do anything wrong? Like, on the termination, who fired them?
Amber let him go.
And what'd she say when she fired him?
That, you know, hey, you know, we asked you to do something and then you didn't do it. We had a meeting. We said, you know, this is how we want things done. You know, and then the next day I asked you to do something else, and you didn't do it again.
So how is that wrongful termination?
I don't think it is at all.
Yeah. So it's just an empty threat.
Yeah.
Like, the person's probably never had a. They don't even know how to contact a lawyer. They don't even know what a lawsuit is, hopefully. And so, you know, let's say that they go make a claim on something like workers comp.
Sure.
Okay, great. They're gonna send an investigator, and you're gonna show that, like, everything was done by what should be done.
I didn't necessarily do anything in writing, though.
It doesn't matter. It's an at will state, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. You don't even need to give people a reason. We never give people a reason.
I didn't think you needed to. So how do you deal with stuff like this?
