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What is employment at will?
What is employment at will?
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so perhaps the most
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confusing concept about employment law
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is the concept of employment at will and
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there’s really not
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a lot of magic to it in texas and and in
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most cases i’m almost sure it’s up to 45
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k
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states by now an employer
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can terminate an employee for a good
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reason
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a bad reason or no reason at all
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that’s the employment will doctrine on
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the other side of that on the flip side
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an employee can terminate his employment
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for a good reason or bad reason or no
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reason at all
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but there are exceptions the exceptions
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are
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statutory exceptions like discrimination
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in texas
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you can’t fire somebody for for the sole
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reason that he or she
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refuses to perform an illegal act
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that’s called the sabine pilot exception
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to the
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employment will doctrine there are many
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whistleblower statutes out there there
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are
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statutes and regulations and and
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you and case law
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to get around the employment will
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doctrine
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but the employment will doctrine
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essentially says as i said you can fire
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you can fire or quit for good reason or
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bad reason or no reason at all
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to add one point to the employment will
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doctrine which is very
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very well misunderstood a lot of people
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will
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will have the understanding
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that texas is what’s called a right to
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work state
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and that gets confused with the
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employment will doctrine
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the right to work state only deals
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with if the employer is a union shop
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the employee can work there whether he
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or she is a member of the
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union or not you have a right to work at
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a
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union facility at a union union job
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whether or not you’re in that union and
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that’s what a right to work state is
Houston, TX employment law attorney Gregg M. Rosenberg explains employment at will.
