Involuntary Firing? PRN

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Is it really involuntary firing if I just didn't care enough to pick up shifts? I chose not pick up the extra shifts because I hated the job but I may have needed to go back to them.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

Voluntary termination is when you are PRN and fail to work/ offer to work the minimum shifts needed For example if PRNs must submit 2 week day and 2weekend shifts availability after 2 or 3 months of not submitting availability you are voluntarily removed from the roster. You did not have to work the 4 shifts just be available for the 4 shifts.

So yes if you did not offer availability because "you didn't want to work" them it's usually considered a voluntary termination (not involuntary because the employee made the decision to not work/offer availability and the employer can give the job to someone who WANTS to work)

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Well, it was kind of mixed. I wasn't getting hours because they figured out that while I was "part-time," my job decided to work me 36 hours a week which I did not know they were going to do. Anything after that meant I would be overtime so all my shifts at that job turned into overtime because it was the same parent company. So instead of giving me shifts, they gave it to other people because it is costly to have me work because I would instantly make more then any other part time or prn employee who was not in overtime. So I stopped working and thought that I had let my time wear out earlier in the year but apparently that was not the case.

[jennycRN]

I was 'terminated' from a prn job under similar circumstances. In the end this involuntary termination worked to my advantage because I was able to collect unemployment benefits. There were no hard feelings with the facility... I work for them today as a full time employee.