There are several potential issues here. Your employer can change your work schedule around, but they can’t single you out based on your race, gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or complaints about discrimination. Courts like to see that your boss has made discriminatory remarks or shows obvious favoritism based on one of those categories.
You have the right to quit, and they have the right to fire you, under Virginia’s “employment at will” doctrine. Some employers prefer to force people out because if you resign, you won’t be able to get unemployment benefits in most cases. This keeps down the employer’s unemployment insurance premiums. If they fire you, you’re entitled to benefits unless they can prove misconduct, which generally means that you were fired for breaking a company rule that you knew about.
Answered on Mar 11th, 2013 at 4:14 PM