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Rex B wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:

alvins wrote:i certainly hope he is a contract employee. otherwise texas is an at will state and you can be fired for no reason or any reason other then discrimination.

Almost...

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"Sabine Pilot" is the abbreviated name of a case decided by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1985, Sabine Pilot Serv. v. Hauck (Tex. 1985). In that case, the Supreme Court recognized a narrow exception to the general "at will" doctrine of employment in Texas, and found that an at-will employee may sue his/her employer if he/she is fired for refusing to commit an illegal act.

In this case, the employer will disavow any knowledge of an illegal order.
Their story is they fired him for violation of their no-firearms policy, which any competent attorney can probably take apart.

Assuming the details provided are true, the driver talked with enough people to get the load reduced, and waited around the terminal overnight... There will be someone to back up his story... And then there's the original load manifest showing the overage... Not everything or everyone is going to be sanitized sufficiently to hide the over-load.

I wish him/them luck... Sounds like a bad deal from the side we've heard.

alvins wrote:i certainly hope he is a contract employee. otherwise texas is an at will state and you can be fired for no reason or any reason other then discrimination.

Almost...

http://www.rscooklaw.com/sabinepilot.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Sabine Pilot" is the abbreviated name of a case decided by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1985, Sabine Pilot Serv. v. Hauck (Tex. 1985). In that case, the Supreme Court recognized a narrow exception to the general "at will" doctrine of employment in Texas, and found that an at-will employee may sue his/her employer if he/she is fired for refusing to commit an illegal act.