Question

Is Employment-At-Will still applicable in the American workplace? Should companies still have the freedom to terminate a person's employment without reason? Provides your thoughts - reasons for and/or against this common law theory.

Answer 1

Yes, employment at will is still applicable in the American Workplace. However, there are some exceptions like government employees and members of trade unions.

Firing an employee without a reason is not fair. So, the companies should not be allowed to terminate a person's employment without reason.

There are many reasons against employment-at-will.

• Managers may fire an employee just because they do not like them or because of their prejucdices against a certain type of people.
• Firing without any reason is nothing but being unfair to the employees who give their best to make the company profitable.
• Employees tend to work without flexibility and freedom as they may always fear of getting fired at any time. This will reduce their productivity.
• Lives of innocent employees fall into chaos just because of the whims of the top management

However, one positive consequence can be that the fired employees may find better jobs with much better pay and culture.