Is it legal to fire someone for lying to a supervisor?

I am a manager at a hotel and a fellow employee went to my boss and told them personal information that is not job related and some things that were false. is there legal recourse to terminate their employment?

uh.... not by you. Managers get this kind of junk all day long. Either file a formal complaint, and get caught up in the mess, and paint a target on your head as a problem, or get over it.

If your boss didn't say anything or care, I'd forget it.

If your state is an at will employment state, and if the employee does not have an employment contract with the hotel that states otherwise, then this person can be terminated at will, which means for no reason whatsoever and without legal recourse. I know you're angry, but I would ignore this for now. I suspect that your boss knows that employees often say things about managers that are not true, and he/she probably took this with a grain of salt. At the end of the day, this employee still reports to you, right?

Must be, when Hillary was on the team that was to handle the impeachment of Nixon, she lied, and got let go, and though not actually fired, she was denied a forwarding recommendation for hire. Maybe that's why she was a designing woman, when she met Bill, and easily seduced him.

In most cases, barring a contract to the contrary, a company can fire its employees for whatever reason it wants other than the employees race, sex, religion, and gender. If the termination is deemed to be without just cause the employee may be eligible for unemployment benefits, but that is about it.

Yes....!!

NO.

the company can only fire an employee if they do bad against the company rules...

having gossips or making false issues towards their colleagues is not good but if your boss has initiative he/she will not make the judgement right away and terminate that employee...

it is not fair...