Employment-At-Will Doctrine:
Employers in the modern corporate world are usually faced with numerous issues to address because of the changing nature of today’s business environment. These issues need to be addressed because of their impact on the relationship between employers and their employees. Some of the most common issues in employer-employee relationship include the use of social media in employment, personnel problems, insubordination, and probable invasion of privacy. One of the major ways that employers can address some of these issues or problems is through the use of Employee-At-Will-Doctrine, which is a common law rule regarding employment relationship. As a recently-hired Chief Operating Officer in a midsized company on the …show more content…
According to the employment-at-will doctrine, the terms of employment is considered to have an indefinite duration when the employee does not have a written employment contract (Muhl, 2001, p.3). In such a situation, the employer can terminate the employment relationship for bad cause, good cause, or no cause whatsoever. This doctrine was adopted on the basis that people should be given the liberty to enter into employment contracts for a particular period, but without any attached obligations on the employer or employee if the individual was hired without such contract. Moreover the doctrine was adopted to give employers permission to terminate or discharge their employees at will since employees had the freedom to resign from positions they did not want to occupy any …show more content…
This rule was adopted on the premise that employers needed such freedom because employees have the liberty to resign from positions or jobs they no longer wish to hold. The employment-at-will doctrine is mainly used as a means for resolving various issues that are likely to occur in employment relationship. The at-will doctrine basically empowers employers to make decisions regarding the termination of employees at their discretion and liberty, particularly when there is no employment
Employers in the modern corporate world are usually faced with numerous issues to address because of the changing nature of today’s business environment. These issues need to be addressed because of their impact on the relationship between employers and their employees. Some of the most common issues in employer-employee relationship include the use of social media in employment, personnel problems, insubordination, and probable invasion of privacy. One of the major ways that employers can address some of these issues or problems is through the use of Employee-At-Will-Doctrine, which is a common law rule regarding employment relationship. As a recently-hired Chief Operating Officer in a midsized company on the …show more content…
According to the employment-at-will doctrine, the terms of employment is considered to have an indefinite duration when the employee does not have a written employment contract (Muhl, 2001, p.3). In such a situation, the employer can terminate the employment relationship for bad cause, good cause, or no cause whatsoever. This doctrine was adopted on the basis that people should be given the liberty to enter into employment contracts for a particular period, but without any attached obligations on the employer or employee if the individual was hired without such contract. Moreover the doctrine was adopted to give employers permission to terminate or discharge their employees at will since employees had the freedom to resign from positions they did not want to occupy any …show more content…
This rule was adopted on the premise that employers needed such freedom because employees have the liberty to resign from positions or jobs they no longer wish to hold. The employment-at-will doctrine is mainly used as a means for resolving various issues that are likely to occur in employment relationship. The at-will doctrine basically empowers employers to make decisions regarding the termination of employees at their discretion and liberty, particularly when there is no employment