Group Firings? (employment, job, fired, contract)

[CheeseDanish]

I work in a qc position at a print facility. Today the boss came in with some bad batches of work - someone had deliberately stuck colored tack tape on the paper before it ran through the printer, causing those pieces to be damaged. The boss obviously believes that this was the work of "A", who has been treading on thin ice for the past couple of weeks. This sort of sabotaging the work would get anyone fired, but the boss doesn't have any proof of who did it. Instead, believing that someone must know who did it and that we/they are protecting them, he has threatened to fire the whole crew.

The day that the work was sabotaged was a day I took off to get some dental work done.I wasn't there for do I have any way to know who did it. Can it be possible I will lose my job over this????

[Serious Conversation]

This threat is empty. I doubt they can function without the whole crew and doing something vindictively like this is grounds for a credible wrongful termination suit.

[ohhwanderlust]

Originally Posted by Emigrations

This threat is empty. I doubt they can function without the whole crew and doing something vindictively like this is grounds for a credible wrongful termination suit.

The US practices at-will employment (except Montana I think). So he could fire them instantly for any reason (except for directly discriminatory reasons when it comes to protected classes). A boss can fire someone just because they feel in a firing mood that day.

[imagineAA]

^^That's true.

"Wrongful termination" means a contract or law was violated.

It doesn't mean "unfair" or "mean" or "stupid" or "for no reason".

[Icemodeled]

I would be surprised if he does it, but you never know.