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can the branch manager be fired
Ok a friend of mine was unjustly fired from his position by a vindictive branch manager. The reason that was given was that he did not follow a security procedure. After the unjust firing he wrote a detailed letter to the CEO of the bank that took over the bank he worked for. The detailed letter was sent to the CEO's home. After many emails to the second-in-command and a couple of follow-up letters to the CEO an employee relations specialist called him on the telephone. The Employee Specialist was on his side but there is only so much she could do. About two months ago the CEO decided that on Fridays Business Casual dress is allowed but this branch manager never showed the email to the staff because she did not believe in dress down. My friend emailed the Employee Relations person who did nothing. Also my friend wanted to know if he was eligible for rehire. When the employee specialist emailed back saying that she read his file on the incident and said no he isn't, this got my friend angry and wrote another letter to the CEO about how the branch manager beached policy by not giving his ex-coworkers the email and also wrote about the incident that got him fired. None of my friends excoworkers want this branch manager - they hate her but are afraid do anything about it because they are afraid she will get revenge. Also this branch manager was put on warning after my friends detailed letter. My question: Will the CEO investigate the beach of policy that the branch manager did and could she be fired for it? Here is the body of the letter my friend wrote: “Not to long ago I emailed Employee Relation concerning the branch manager telling Employee Relations about the email concerning Business Casual Dress on Fridays. Here is what I told Employee Relations and now you: When the email came out to each branch manager that Friday’s will be Business Casual Dress the Branch Manager never showed the email to my ex-coworkers due to the fact she did not feel it was appropriate to dress down. Isn’t this a breach of procedure and disobeying you. The only reason that my ex-coworkers knew about Business Casual Dress on Fridays is when they spoke to people who work in other branches. When the Branch Manager realized that my ex-coworkers knew about Business Casual Dress on Fridays the Branch Manager then showed them the email. My ex-coworkers told me what happened and how they found out about the email. In addition my ex-coworkers do NOT want this branch manager as the branch manager but are afraid to contact you due to the fact she will write them up and twist and turn an incident to get the employee fired. My ex-coworkers do not trust the branch manager at all.
And here is the other issue I am writing you about - me. Back in November of 2007 the branch manager singled me out among all the staff to say I refused to be the look out when the branch was to be opened one Wednesday morning. This incident was never investigated. The branch manager played judge and jury and handed out the verdict and convinced the old bank (higher-ups) that I did not follow procedure. Why wasn’t I questioned by an old bank Higher Up? Why did they just take her word for it? I feel that I was fired unjustly. The day in question I was there along with the rest of the staff - so why I was I singled out when there were about eleven other staff members there on that Wednesday morning as well. And do you know that day it was only 20 degrees outside and the wind chill factor was making it minus something. And the only reason I was there that early was because of the Wednesday morning meetings that the branch manager wanted otherwise I would have been there at my regular starting time which was 8:30am (Eastern Standard Time). Yet the branch manager is still working at the branch even though she breached policy not to long ago. The branch manager should be fired for breach of policy due to the fact she withheld the email about Business Casual Dress and in addition lying and twisting and turning things around to suit her needs.”
In large corporations policies are not at the will of the employee, policies are mandatory. So yes Business Casual on Fridays was MANDATORY.
And I asked my cousin who is a lawyer it is now illegal to fire at will, especially in large corporations: haven't you heard of lawsuits. Large corps try to avoid that. This branch manager is very vindictive.
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Your friend needs to stop this.
It is part of the job of the Employee Relations officer to decide if your friend was wrongfully dismissed and ALSO if this situation could look bad in a courtroom and fuel a lawsuit.
Since your friend was not eligible for re-hire, it is very unlikely that they have any legal leg to stand on. The threat of lawsuit at the end of this letter is empty, and the CEO likely knows it.
Trying to get their old boss fired, out of anger and vengeance, for this incident with the casual Friday e-mail is not very smart either. She isn’t going to get fired, and it only makes your friend appear vicious and irrational. With only that e-mail as 'proof' of dishonesty... well, that simply is not enough to dismiss a manager for. Unless there is a great deal more evidence and complaints against this manager, that incident and your friends opinion, are not going to get them fired.
She might be spoken too about this incident, but frankly, given your description of it, if she was going to be ‘spoken’ too, she probably already has been.
Your friend truly needs to not write any more letters to this company. If they really think they were wrongfully dismissed, they need to hire a lawyer and let the lawyer handle communications with the company. This letter was purely vindictive and will not be successful at either getting their old job back or getting the manager fired.
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