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Well, in the United States private employers, corporations or companies have the right to do what ever they feel is necessary for their business, this includes termination of employment, restricting access for employees, disciplinary action etc, the only things that make them illegal (generally speaking ) is when they violate EEOC, OSHA or labor laws.They have to maintain employee records for taxes etc for a certain period, they are not obligated to have someone on their website, there is no law governing that.regards

“What's the craziest excuse you have had an employee/coworker tell you showing up late to work?”Well… back in the pre-cel days I had a co-worker, who lived on the fifth floor of a walk-up inside city limits, call two hours into the shift saying that a horse broke into her house and she was waiting for animal control to get the animal out of the house.You can imagine that our boss was incredulous.How incredulous? She wanted to see the police report, or there would be disciplinary action.My co-worker one-upped her; she showed up a couple hours later… with a police escort… and a horse trailer with the equine burglar!The Polaroids showing the horse in the kitchen were a bonus, but the crowning moment of awesome was the bag of horse dung she brought our boss as a souvenir.Nobody knows how it happened, but it did. Some believe it to be an urban legend, but I was there… I smelled the horse.

You contact a competent employment law attorney who is licensed in your jurisdiction.You do what he or she tells you to do.I am autistic, and I can actually perfectly well believe that you could have called someone “obtuse” and not intended anything autism-related. It’s not like “obtuse” is a known anti-autistic slur or anything, and it’s pretty easy for us to in fact be “obtuse” in the sense of “just not getting the point”.Honestly, I personally don’t think you did anything all that bad (though still rude and unprofessional), and that you should receive no worse discipline than your workplace policy provides for any relatively mild insult of one employee to another, regardless of “disability” (though I don’t consider my autism a disability).But that’s my personal opinion.I don’t practice employment law, I’m not licensed in your jurisdiction (unless you happen to be in Massachusetts), and even if I were, I’d need a lot more information than you can give in an Quora question before I could tell you if you’re on the right side of the law or what you should do next.I’m always happy to answer general-interest legal questions on Quora, and if they happen to aid someone in a personal legal situation, great.But when you have a specific, fact-sensitive legal problem, asking Quora is not a viable substitute for actual representation by a legal professional.Original Question:“How can I challenge disciplinary actions at work for calling an employee who I found out later had some autism illness obtuse? I had no idea that he had some autism illness and wasn't calling him obtuse to mock his disability.”