Relax, they won’t lose job if sent to jail

Ok, all those partners whose husband is using the “you don’t want me to lose my job, do you?” line.

I called the corporate and local HR departments of SJ’s job and asked, without giving names, if an employee was let go if they have to do jail time for nonpayment of support or breach of a legal contract. The answer was “not if they have the sick and personal days to cover the time they are in jail’ and “actually we get that question a lot”.

So there. JUST sending them to jail for contempt for nonpayment will not cost them their jobs.

I wanted that fact under my belt before I start this breach of contract process, so that when SJ says “well, you’ll just make me lose my job and then what will you get” I can just ignore him and NOT lose sleep over that threat.

Good to know. Also good to know that corporate American doesn’t fire chief executives for purposefully breaking the law. Hhmmmm. Integrity is old-school, I guess.

Of course, if they’re out and IT finds illegal or corporate regulation breach data on their computers, that’s another thing to consider.