Can you be rehired if you didn’t give 2weeks notice?

You had a family emergency and had to leave and that takes priority over any job. Also, the fact that you had a great record won't hurt you at all. The 2 weeks that businesses ask for is as a courtesy. They can't demand that you give it. After all, when they're gonna fire someone, they don't say you're gonna be fired in 2 weeks. They just fire you on the spot. Well, it works the same for employees. You are NOt required to give any notice. They just request that you do. You should be fine if you apply to another JCPenney. You sound like an excellent employee with a great work ethic.

Can a company rehire you? Sure. There is no law against rehiring a former employee. Will not giving notice be an issue? Maybe. Obviously, that wasn't the best way to leave things. Whether JCP will consider you or not depends on how many qualified applicants they have for the openings, how long you worked in that job before you quit, if you explained your situation or just disappeared, and whether or not you were considered a good employee. You also need to be able to state that in the future, you won't quit without notice. If you can't do that, then your changes of getting rehired will be lower. No company will want to hire someone who is likely to quit and run off to another country at the drop of a hat.

It's not impossible, and you have nothing to lose by trying, but companies that big aren't keeping track of every former employee's story about the circumstances around their departure. Even if they believed your story back then, and it's by no means a given that they did because there are liars out there, all they're going to see in your employment history is that you quit without notice.

It very well might.. they consider it job abandonment.

If you told them and they understood the reasoning back then, it may be noted in your file that you didn't just "no show, no call." Is that what happened for you? Or...did you just not show up anymore?

There is a huge difference and that difference could be the reason you do or do not get this job...

Not putting your 2-weeks in without a valid reason can regularly be used as a possible strike against rehire, but that seems like a pretty valid reason and even more so, JC Penny's is on the verge of bankruptcy, I think they will be happy to have anyone come back to them as they are taking a net loss of 300-400 million a year on interest alone with the 5B they are in debt.

We cannot tell you. That depends on the polices of the company, and, perhaps on the manager presently in charge.

****I returned in March of that year but I haven’t worked since then because I have been raising my family. Now that they are older I’d like to return to work. I was 18 at the time of working at JCPenney and it was my first and only job experience.