Exceptions To Employment-At-Will

“Employment-at-Will is a a doctrine in which both the employee and the employer can terminate the relationship at time and for any legally permissible reason, or for no reason at all” (Cihon, 2014). Exceptions to employment-at-will includes whistleblowers, public policy exception and implied employment contracts. A whistleblower is an employee who reports his/her employer’s illegal activities to the appropriate governmental entity or, under some state statutes, to the board of directors or senior management of the firm (Cihon, 2014). Many federal and state statutes protect whistleblowers by making retaliation an illegal act.
Although the employee is employed at-will, termination is illegal if a clear and significant mandate of law (statutory