Fired for ecig use

[zoiDman]

Very good advice zoiDman!

Thanks Dee...

These are such tough times right now, I hate hearing about anyone loosing their job. It's a Big Time employer's market. Best to keep things low key.

 

[Roaddogg]

come to Missouri,, EMS jobs here

 

[GIMike]

Employers these days can fire you for anything. I've had some very questionable terminations and when I talked to a lawyer they said "it's a right to work state, no point in me taking this case". It seems as if they only way you can successfully win a lawsuit for being fired is when an employer fires an employee of a different race while calling them a derogatory term for your particular family's origin. That's about it....

 

[MiXoLoGiSt]

Makes me love CA more and more.....

Here we can create lawsuits if they give us a reason like that. Maybe not within the first 30-60 days but after that its free game to go after the employer for Wrongful Termination.

I am sorry this happened to you. That is such a BS excuse.

 

[Milhaus]

Scroll down to the Workplace section of Massachusetts Law About Smoking ..

I'm not horribly optimistic because one of the links leads to "Massachusetts does not have a law protecting smokers from discrimination, nor does it have a law protecting employees from discipline or discharge based on their off-duty conduct generally." ..

I wish you luck, -Magnus

vaping isn't smoking, nor is it general off-duty conduct. He was arbitrarily singled out for doing the same activities in the form of vaping that other employees are doing while smoking. Not to be crude, but this is the equivalent of being fired for taking 5 minute bathroom breaks like everyone else but using wet wipes instead of toilet paper.

If this was really only about vaping then I would call a lawyer, but I'm stubborn like that.