LAST EDITED ON 12-24-12 AT 08:19 PM (EST)

There may be places that are more ethical or need to follow certain rules about firing people (like the state usually is more restrained than the private sector).

But generally a lot of the "right to work" laws end up making it much easier to fire people for no particular reason.

Now a lot of places don't fire people willy-nilly (even if they can) because training replacements is costly and too many whimsical firings gets the people you wanna keep to start looking hard for work somewhere else.

And it depends on what contracts they do set up with the employees that may restrain what they can do but only because they voluntarily do it because it sets up a better quality of people. It does seem to effect those at the low end of the scale more than the upper end where you can demand a contract that gives you protections the law may not.

Maybe your Right to Work laws are different, but in this state as long as they can say it wasn't one of the illegal discrimination things they don't need a "cause" to fire you. The boss doesn't like the color of your socks is just as valid as we caught you stealing out of the till. Or the boss is just in a bad mood and decided firing someone today would boost their mood and you happened to be the first person they saw that morning.

Like I said, this may have consequences if you are too whimsical too often, but it ain't illegal. Just as long as it wasn't because of your race or religion and they can say it was the color of your socks with a straight face in court.

LAST EDITED ON 12-26-12 AT 00:29 AM (EST)

This has nothing whatsoever to do with "right to work". Instead, it turns around another doctrine known as "employment at will".

In general, in North America, unlike Europe, you have no right to your job, and you can be terminated without cause. There are three primary exceptions to this rule: public policy, discrimination, and implied contract.

A handful of states have recognized an implied warranty of good faith and fair dealing in employment, which would mean that an employee could only be fired for just cause, but no midwestern state has.

Ah, got the two things collapsed, but usually I've heard more worrying about "employment at will" in the states that do the whole "right to work" thing, or when "right to work" is being implemented.

I got warned by a few people when moving to the South from the Midwest about it, but then again the states I moved from had, at the time, pretty strong unions so that may be why they wanted to collapse the two.

Coincidentally, my sister actually worked for my current boss about 30 years ago. His business was relatively new at the time; she did a little of what I do now.

Anywho, the bosses wife was jealous. He "let her go" because his wife did not want a woman working there.

Once again paranoid women.

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