At-Will Employment Laws

In many (most?) European countries you cannot legally fire an employee at will. There needs to be a process, and the employer has to be able to show that the employee cannot or will not perform even adequately (or actively harms the employer eg. by stealing), cannot be trained or reassigned to a more suitable position.

In most countries that don't have employ-at-will I.E you could just fire them anyway, this is a real thing that actually happens

It’s not common in the US but over here in Europe it’s standard practice that you cannot fire an employee at will, most of the time you need to give 1-3 months notice. You can only fire them immediately if there’s misconduct, breach of contract etc.

In places with actual employment law (like the EU), you can't just fire someone with no reason.

You can get fired any time - get laid off, become a victim of corporate politics, or get fired for whatever other reason. Just last month, someone I know got fired on the spot after 15 years at a company for not reporting some personal stuff between other employees.. something he wasn't involved with, at allThis 'at wil'/'can get fired for any reason' stuff is unique to the USA, and is illegal in the EU.The lesson is that employment rights laws are not some "socialist" horrible laws

The vast majority of employment in the US is so called "at will," which means an employee can be fired at any time for any reason, except an illegal one. And good luck with proving it was in fact an illegal one. Our "contracts" are barely worth the bits we use to store them. Why would we trust the company at all in this situation? It would be a mistake for every single person to take management at face value.

In some places, a company can't just fire people because they feel like it. In Germany, where this is called a "Betriebsbedingte Kündigung"[1] you have to make a socially adequate choice based on how long someone has been at the company, whether they have kids, etc. and you also have to prove that there isn't an open position elsewhere in the company.[1]: https:/

Careful, they can fire you for NO reason, but they can't fire you for ANY reason.

Many states in the US are at will employment. Meaning you can be fired at any time for basically any reason. Protected classes (race, gender, etc) and acts are the exemption to that. But they can use any excuse they want, fire you, and hire someone else to the same position right away.

> I don't think legally a company can fire youIn places which have "at will employment" regulations, they can. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment: At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships in which an employee can be dismissed by an employer for any reason (that is, without hav