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What laws prohibit such a termination?

• potatolicious 10y ago
  No explicit law - a termination in this instance would not be intrinsically illegal. But it opens up the company to legal liability - the combination of absolutely no records of performance problems, no change in needs of the company, as well as the very obvious motivation to avoid paying a contractual payout, makes this a gaping liability hole if someone wanted to bring suit to the company. For the record I never even hinted at suing the company, my impression is that this muscling-out move was done by the CTO and once HR caught wind of it they put the kibosh on it. As for why the CTO did it, I don't think I'll ever know - it may have to do with him trying (and failing) to leverage my immigration status (H-1B) to keep me at the company.