Legal Question in Employment Law in Alabama

Re: Employee Requirnments

Under Alabama law, an employer can fire you for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all. That's a verbatim quote from the Alabama Supreme Court. They can fire you for refusal to give a home telephone number. The only protection you have in Alabama is under Federal antidiscrimination statutes and a few retaliatory discharge statutes such as FMLA or FLSA. Alabama law does allow you time off for jury duty and you cannot be fired for filing a worker's compensation claim. Other than those, you gotta do what the boss man says. Of course, if they are only firing blacks or women for failing to give a home phone number then you have a different story.

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