Hello,

Unfortunately unless you have an Employment Contract or there is a company policy that provides more rights, you really don't have any right to appeal or change the employer's decision. In essence if you are an "At Will" employee, which most employees in SC are, your employer not only gets to set and change the terms and conditions of employment as they see fit, but they also get to set the disciplinary process, if any, or simply terminate an employee, for any, or no, reason and with no notice or warning. In your case, thankfully, your employer either has a formal or informal policy that gives you more rights to keep your job than most.

Just to be clear, the way "at will" employment works is the employer can be as arbitrary and misguided in their decision as they choose. The only other restriction on their ability to discipline or terminate as they choose, other than a contract or policy, is that they cannot specifically target an employee for adverse treatment simply because that employee is a member of a protected class under employment discrimination laws.

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