Retiring Vs. firing:
So they've been at each station long enough to get a pension [if the station/company/whomever offered them]. So they're start saying "Well, I think I'm going to retire." Viola, station all of a sudden fires them so they don't have to pay the pension. I know there are dirtbag business' that pull this crap....heck, just out of high school worked for a grocery company that offered pensions to those who made it to 30 years. Inevitably, just before someone made it to the 30 year mark [one TWO months before she would have hit 30 year, retire and take her pension] they fired them for some "infraction", "Violation of company rules" or some other such BS so they wouldn't have to pay their pension. However, they F'd with the wrong person once, fired him, he demanded his pay [state law, if terminated you have to pay them what you are owed immediately], they told him to get bent. He was back later that afternoon with his older brother who just happened to be an attorney, sheriff dept in tow with a letter from a judge ordering a lien placed on the property if he wasn't payed immediately and his attorney brother saying if he wasn't paid within 15 minutes he would have the sheriff order everyone out of the store and padlock the door. Manager panicked, called corporate, they begrudgingly told him to pay him what he was owed out of one of the registers....minus his taxes and other stuff. Not sure if the "personalities" fired would want to take it that far. I'd sure as hell tell them to pound salt if they said they had a "non-compete" clause and couldn't work for any other station within 100 miles. As far as I'm concerned, you fired ME, therefore I'm not bound by any of your BS "rules", contract or no contract.
So they've been at each station long enough to get a pension [if the station/company/whomever offered them]. So they're start saying "Well, I think I'm going to retire." Viola, station all of a sudden fires them so they don't have to pay the pension. I know there are dirtbag business' that pull this crap....heck, just out of high school worked for a grocery company that offered pensions to those who made it to 30 years. Inevitably, just before someone made it to the 30 year mark [one TWO months before she would have hit 30 year, retire and take her pension] they fired them for some "infraction", "Violation of company rules" or some other such BS so they wouldn't have to pay their pension. However, they F'd with the wrong person once, fired him, he demanded his pay [state law, if terminated you have to pay them what you are owed immediately], they told him to get bent. He was back later that afternoon with his older brother who just happened to be an attorney, sheriff dept in tow with a letter from a judge ordering a lien placed on the property if he wasn't payed immediately and his attorney brother saying if he wasn't paid within 15 minutes he would have the sheriff order everyone out of the store and padlock the door. Manager panicked, called corporate, they begrudgingly told him to pay him what he was owed out of one of the registers....minus his taxes and other stuff. Not sure if the "personalities" fired would want to take it that far. I'd sure as hell tell them to pound salt if they said they had a "non-compete" clause and couldn't work for any other station within 100 miles. As far as I'm concerned, you fired ME, therefore I'm not bound by any of your BS "rules", contract or no contract.