Clinton Huxley wrote:I thought hire 'em and fire 'em was the American way? Labour laws are for Commies.....
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Not sure where you get that.
The general rule is that an employer or an employee may terminate the employment relationship at will, except if there is an illegal reason for the termination. There are no illegal reasons for an employee to quit his job, although if he has a contract he may be liable for breach of contract depending on the terms. An employer, however, is quite constrained in her ability to fire an employee - employees may not be terminated on account race, color, creed/religion/atheism/agnosticism/lack of belief, national origin, disability, veteran's status or service in the uniformed services, sex, in some places sexual orientation, pregnancy, sex stereotyping, age, serving on a jury, making a claim for workers compensation, in retaliation for reporting an employer's violation of the law, in retaliation for participating in an employment investigation of unlawful activity, in retaliation for making a claim with the EEOC or a State fair employment agency, in retaliation for taking Family and Medical Leave (or failing to allow someone to return to work after Family and Medical Leave), failing to reinstate a member of the military under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act..... and the list goes on and on. Sexual and other bias-based harassment is prohibited. We have the National Labor Relations Act and National Labor Relations Board protecting unions and the right of workers to unionize.
The US has plenty of recourse here for unfair terminations - lawsuits against employers are quite common. And, we have an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission at the Federal level and 50 separate State equivalents if someone prefers to pursue state law fair employment claims.