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It is not just California, the whole US. California has some of the best labor laws here.

• e12e 10y ago
  But not all states are at-will states? Some states you actually need a reason to fire someone? Or so I thought?
  • ryanbrunner 10y ago
    It's not quite as simple as states being either "at-will" or "not at-will". Every state in the U.S. is to at least some degree an "at-will employment" state, although different states will have different exceptions. At a bare minimum level, all states except 7 recognize public policy exceptions to at-will employment (firing employees for doing something compliant with public policy, like filing a disability claim). At a "getting further away from pure at-will employment" level, 11 states require employers to act in good faith when firing employees (which basically excludes malicious firings)
    • dragonwriter 10y ago
      > At a bare minimum level, all states except 7 recognize public policy exceptions to at-will employment (firing employees for doing something compliant with public policy, like filing a disability claim). And even if a state doesn't, the federal government does, so there are always public policy exceptions.
  • pandaman 10y ago
    I think you are confusing employment-at-will and right-to-work+. Some states are right-to-work, all are at-will. (+ it is about laws regulating unions, not literal rights to work.