How did the US Laws to protect the rights of workers become meaningless?

Question

Americans can be fired for almost none to no reasons and it is called an At-Will Employment.

Most Americans are honest workers but they can be terminated and not for legitimate reasons.

Quiting should be for legitimate reasons.

Some contracts are non-binding and people cannot just walk away.

Answer 1

It's a combination of the anti-Communist rhetoric that Reagan brought back into popularity, the blurring of the far right of the lines between Democrats, Socialists and Communists, and so-called fierce Capitalism which is anti-innovation and free enterprise but instead make their profits through cost cutting and mergers. I also believe few people have any idea basic employee rights are gone. Pregnant women are being fired more than any other time, even though I see people on YA claiming that they can't be. Many Democracies has successfully existed for many years with a touch of Socialism. Yet, you will see many claims that Socialism is the same as Communism. Capitalism today makes it tough for the entrepeneur to compete in the market yet small business owners will claim that the pro-multi national corporations laws today help them-completely untrue but...

The super capitalism of today is more like the Robber Barons gone wrong in the 30s. The robber barons did start out crating industry and jobs but eventually just got greedy and corrupt.

The other key here is that people in the US like to imagine that someday they will be rich and enjoy the tax benefits and special treatment. It's a fact that people rarely advance much beyond the class they were born into but people like to believe it.

The statement that we can just quit-well, yes, but quit two jobs in a row and suddenly employers are afraid to hire you.

Answer 2

Just how far do you want to take these "workers' rights"?

Okay, you want a right to not be fired without "cause". What constitutes cause? Not working? Being incompetent? Personal hygiene being so poor that it drives off customers? None of those?

How about business being bad? No fault of the employees, but sometimes jobs just aren't profitable because the industry, or technology, or interest rates change. Who bears the risk of that? If not the employee, then who?

If employees are to be so thoroughly protected, what about MY situation? I'm a sole proprietor. I don't have any employees, yet. Should I be forced to pay the first one I hire back wages for all the time that I've been in business without one? After all, employees have a "right" to the job, and I've been denying it to them by not hiring anyone during the time when I selfishly did the work myself.

Nobody has a "right" to a job. Not even the self-employed. We have to get ourselves hired anew every single day.

If you want the kind of job security that you want the Law to give you, what you need to do is make sure that if you died at your desk, someone at work would notice and mourn.

Answer 3

Isn't this pretty much what happened to spur the beginning of unions in America? I agree with you the employer has too much control of employees, but on the other hand, we can quit when we want, also, for no reason given.
I know a teacher being let go with no definite reason and just handed a note saying they wouldn't need her next year. Bye! I told her, too, doesn't she have a right to go before the board? Yep, big business pretty much runs the show and a lot of it is they know there are plenty out there looking for work. Seems they want employees loyal to their company, but could give darn about being loyal to their employees!

Answer 4

it is called a free country , that applies to employers to . You don't want government regualting our lives do you