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I'm intrigued, can you just be fired like that in the US? In England it's really hard to just fire someone without a valid reason (gross negligence, etc).
by MattBearman 13y ago
I'm intrigued, can you just be fired like that in the US? In England it's really hard to just fire someone without a valid reason (gross negligence, etc).
- Someone 13y agoYes/No. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment: "It is important to understand that the at-will doctrine is merely a default rule that can be overridden by an express contract or civil service statutes (in the case of government employees). As many as 34% of all U.S. employees apparently enjoy the protection of some kind of "just cause" or objectively reasonable requirement for termination that takes them out of the pure "at-will" category"
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- shiftpgdn 13y agoYes. As an anecdotal at a startup I worked at years ago the founders best friend who had become COO would bring women up to the office after hours and fire call center employees at random to show off "his power in the company." Another time the company was having a hard time paying the bills so they fired quite literally half the staff seemingly at random and then delayed their final paychecks.