Employment At Will Doctrine

Employment At Will Doctrine: Employment at will is one of the legal doctrines that protect the right of the individual. According to (Halbert/Ingulli 2012) “which gives employers broad discretion to fire employees for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all” This doctrine is very straight forward and it protects both employees and employers. Employees may not be fired for refusing to do the wrong or illegal things, race, gender or sexual orientations. Employment relationships are presumed to be at-will in all US states except Montana. The US is one of a handful of countries where employment where employment is predominantly at-will. Most countries throughout the world allow employers to dismiss employees only for cause. At-will also …show more content…
The understanding of employment-at-will doctrine will make it easy for me as the COO will make it very easy to legally fire or not all the six employees. I will be dealing with problems one, three and six.
I. I will fire John immediately and legally the company has the right to fire any employee that does not have the authority legal authority to represent the company, so whatever he has written will damage the relationship with the most important customer of the company. John is not covered by any of the exceptions that guide the employment-at-will doctrine.
II. Bill can be fired at will and that is what I surely will do. I will fire Bill immediately as the company equipment should only be used for company business and not for private business. Bill is using the company’s BlackBerry to run private business that is against the company’s policy. Bill has broken the company’s rule and violated the company’s policy and he can be fired legally. He is not covered by the exceptions provided by the employment-at-will …show more content…
One of his responsibilities was designing a foundation plan based on the copyrighted architectural designs that were provided by his employer. In 2010 Adam was given a plan that had a black stamp that stated “If this stamp is not red it is an illegal set of plans” The plan also stated ” Reproduction of these plans by any means is prohibited by federal law” Adam refused to work on the plan because it was illegal and this prompted his employer to fire him and he was escorted out of the building. Adam filed a claim for wrongful dismissal for wrongful