Q: Can an employer consider a per diem employee to be 'voluntarily terminating' employment if the employee does not work a
certain required number of hours BUT the specific required number of hours is not written or agreed to in any formal sense (no contract, not mentioned in offer letter, etc, but determined/changed by manager per staffing needs)? Employee is not working for pandemic-related reasons, but interested in the answer in a regular situation as well.
A: Without a contract governing your employment, your employer is free to change the number hours you are required to work at any time for any reason, whether it is due to the pandemic or not. If you refuse or cannot work those hours, your employment can be terminated.
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