Lowe's Business Analysis

The biggest compensation and benefits issue at Lowe’s stems from the fact that North Carolina is an ‘Employment at will’ state. That means Lowe’s can terminate an employee without notice, for any reason, or for no reason. The only requirement is that the termination should not violate federal or state laws (Guerin, 2015). The company is not required to offer severance payments to terminated or laid off employees or assist them in finding alternative employment. Once an employees is terminated it is up to the employee to seek unemployment benefits from the state.
The Lowe’s leave policy does not offer paternity leave on an equal footing with maternity leave. While this might appear to be a ‘male discrimination’ issue, it is actually a workplace