My girlfriend was let go today after working at a animal creamatorium LLC in Illinois for about 8 months.
Her manager was off for the day but was watching her on the cameras in the office and complaining to the owner how my girlfriend was helping the new girl and telling her the wrong info. Which means the cameras have audio but no signage posted anywhere stating they record audio. I was pretty sure that was not okay, but I'm here for a double check.
My girlfriend was upset she was being recorded and complained to her friend and co worker. Her friend went to the owner and was like “She's a really good worker but the manager has been up her butt about everything, I think girlfriend would do better working in a different office”
Then the owner texted my girlfriend saying that she shouldn't be complaining to coworkers about issues at work and that she should keep it to herself. This all happened Friday on girlfriends birthday.
Come to this morning and she gets let go because they heard over the cameras that she was telling the new girl how to do the job incorrectly and that she was terminated effective immediately. They also said she was late all the time. My girlfriend said she told the new girl the correct information and that everyone was late all the time and the owner just replied “It doesn't matter, terminated effective immediately”
She'd never been written up or had signed any papers saying she did anything wrong. I'm not sure if it's okay or not and was looking to share and see if she should report anything to any places that regulate how businesses operate.
TL:DR Girlfriends audio was recorded in a non listed area and was used to fire her with no write ups on her record.