Lucy At Will State Case Summary

Lucy at Risk in an At-Will State This case study describes a situation of a long-term employee beginning to act irregularly. Lucy, an employee working for the hotel for seven years, has begun to take longer lunches, not coming into work, and recording 8 hour work days with overtime without permission. Henry, the maintenance manger and her boss, is fed-up with her actions and is thinking about terminating her. Since the hotel as an at-will state, he is allowed to fire her for no reason at all. Then, after many other poor actions from Lucy, Henry was able to meet with her. During the meeting, Lucy was able to explain her predicament of too much work and other workers not supporting her. Together they went over her job description to negotiate some aspects; however, Henry stated that there were fundamental rules that she was violating. So, if her actions continued there will no longer be a job for her. Then, Henry went to Brad, the director of human resources, to ask for his advice. I believe that Henry had handled the meeting with Lucy in a respectful manner. This is because he didn’t begin the meeting with discipline; he was able to stay calm. He began by having Lucy to explain her side of the story, and her defense she did have reason to be stressed out with the new hotel wing and the increase in her work-load. …show more content…
This because she was continually violated the hotel’s fundamental rules of calling in sick and reporting overtime. The point that she crossed the line was when Henry confronted her about her irregular actions and set-up the 1st meeting with her, and she called in sick because she was stressed about the meeting and her workload, and she didn’t directly contact Henry. This was the second time that she had skipped out of a meeting that she was committed to go to. This just proves that she is not responsible, can no longer be trusted, and that she is a threat to the