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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by eru on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:34AM (#23088399)
Legally speaking, you always have a contract when working for someone. Even if it's implicit and oral only.

You even have a contract when you are buying a piece of candy at the newsstand.

(At least in the common law world. In eg German law technically you have one contract for the piece of candy, and one contract for each individual coin you are handing over. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_principle_(law) Germans are a bit crazy.)

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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by TylerE on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @03:29AM (#23088669)
That is NOT the case in the US. That’s the whole point of this sub-thread.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

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Re:Citing revenue declines, Airbnb cuts 25% of workforce by eru on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @05:08AM (#23089145)
Huh? Literally the first sentence in that article starts with

> At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships [...]

Emphasis on contractual.

Or am I missing something?

A contract that can be dissolved at will is still a contract. Just like you can cancel your Netflix subscription at will, and it's still a valid legal contract.

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