Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by kbenson on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:12PM (#16664100)

> The real story is he has no employment rights because he's in America and he's "at will."

At-will employment is state level, not nation level, so it's not really a "he's in America" thing. Most states subscribe to some version of at-will employment, but various states have different types of exceptions which make it much less clear to apply as a statement to the entire United States (much less the various other groups "America" could refer to).

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by analog31 on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:36PM (#16664215)

Is there another country that has "at will" employment to the extent that the US does?

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by netheril96 on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:52PM (#16664509)

China.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by tatersolid on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:45PM (#16664261)

Pretty much all of them except a few European nations.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by zeth___ on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:00PM (#16664326)

Pretty much no other developed country has this. Hell most Eastern European countries don't have this.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by mthoms on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:14PM (#16664378)

>Pretty much all of them except a few European nations.

Where on earth did you get that idea?

There are no affluent western nation besides the United States with "At Will" employment except perhaps Israel (I was unable to confirm).

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by YZF on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:20PM (#16664636)

Israel isn't "at will"...

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by mthoms on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:46AM (#16664922)

Thanks. I saw that mentioned on Quora but there was no citation provided.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by DanBC on Saturday March 24, 2018 @05:23AM (#16665680)

The UK effectively has at will employment for the first two years. (But with Equality Act protections for people with protected characteristics: you can't fire someone because of their gender, for example).

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by Symbiote on Saturday March 24, 2018 @05:57AM (#16665788)

It's one week up to 2 years.

Not great, but "at will" means 0 notice.

https://www.gov.uk/redundant-your-rights/notice-periods

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by gpm on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:15PM (#16664381)

The law and details varies by province/territory in Canada, but in every single one of them you are due form of notice/pay in lieu of notice. I.e. they have to pay you for X weeks after they tell you they are firing you, they might require you keep working for those X weeks.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by slavik81 on Saturday March 24, 2018 @03:55AM (#16665435)

I really like the Alberta model[1]. Employers are required to give a few weeks notice when firing without cause, and employees are required to give a few weeks notice when quitting without cause.

The notice periods are not excessively long, but they give both parties a chance to prepare for the change. A few weeks might not be enough time to hire a new employee or find a new job, but it should be enough to put together a plan.

The ability to fire or quit without cause seems like the part of 'at will' employment that's most important to economic efficiency, so it's nice to have a kinder system which still includes that.

[1]: https://www.alberta.ca/termination-pay.aspx

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by badosu on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:06PM (#16664347)

I am not sure about that... Not in Brazil at least

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by somethingsimple on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:08AM (#16664815)

One of the few things I miss about Brazil is how much more protection I had there as a worker compared to the US.

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