I had planned to take the week off prior to Thanksgiving for a family vacation. I got the time off approved three months ago. Now my boss is saying he needs me to work that week. My family will be devastated. What to do?
You must be really important, and the work situation must be a real emergency that only you can handle in person for your boss to ask you to change your Thanksgiving family vacation at the last minute. Unless all of the above is true, and if your boss isn’t sympathetic or flexible, then it sounds like he may be a jerk. Try to reason with your boss that whatever it is can be handled either by someone else or by you remotely — because we’ve all demonstrated that almost anything can be done via WiFi. Also, point out the hardship on your family, although this shouldn’t require too much explanation. If, for some reason, your presence is required, perhaps your boss will be flexible and you can send your family along ahead of you and then you join them a day or two later.
I was fired from my job because I wouldn’t get vaccinated when my employer mandated it. Now my employer is no longer mandating the vaccine but isn’t offering me my job back. I still haven’t found a position, and I was denied unemployment. Do I have any recourse against my employer?
New York had the most stringent —and in my view unreasonable and immoral — restrictions imposed on workers by the government of any state in the country. The economic impact and the developmental impact on our children in school will be felt for years. Thank you, Bill de Blasio — your parting gift to New Yorkers. Your employer was under government mandate to impose the vaccination requirement, so they were just following the law, which was lifted as of Nov. 1 for private employers but still in effect for city workers, so I don’t think there is much recourse against your former employer. A judge just ruled on a suit brought by sanitation workers that the restriction for government employees was unlawful, which the city is appealing. You can talk to a lawyer about what legal recourse you may have.
Gregory Giangrande has over 25 years of experience as a chief human resources executive. Hear Greg Weds. at 9:35 a.m. on iHeartRadio 710 WOR with Len Berman and Michael Riedel. E-mail: GoToGreg@NYPost.com. Follow: GoToGreg.com and on
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