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You sign an offer letter, not a contract. Its basically a promise that if you show up on a given date that your employer will give you the necessary documents t
by 0xB31B1B 5y ago
You sign an offer letter, not a contract. Its basically a promise that if you show up on a given date that your employer will give you the necessary documents to sign to start employment, and what the terms of employment would look like. There is no legal protection for candidates who have had offers rescinded. Employment in the US is 'at will'. You can leave with zero days notice, your employer can fire you with zero days notice.
- CRConrad 5y ago> ...if you show up on a given date that your employer will give you the necessary documents to sign to start employment, and what the terms of employment would look like. So what are those "documents", then, if not what in most languages would be called "a contract"?
- CRConrad 5y agoAlso, BTW: > You sign an offer letter, not a contract. A letter is something that is signed by the sender, not the recipient. The sender here is presumably the (prospective) employer, not the employee (to be). So if (the editorial) "you" also sign(s) it, it isn't really a "letter" AFAICS. [Edit:] The common-language, and I'd assume in most jurisdictions also the legal, understanding of what "a contract" means is something like "a document signed by two parties wherein they both commit to certain obligations vis-a-vis each other". So all in all, I'm getting the feeling that this "letter" actually, legally, is some kind of contract; only employers don't want employees to realise that, so they call it "a letter". /[Edit]