No, you can only say no thanks and leave. I strongly suggest to anyone who gets hired at Google to read the employment contract completely (you can ask them to send it to you before you start). If you have a friend who understands contract law, have them explain it to you. Then decide.

Unlike in credit situations there is no equivalent of the Fair Credit Act covering employment contracts. Many employers exploit that by writing some very crafty wording which reads one way but on close inspection says the opposite.

Not just contrcat law employment law experiance is key here.

Thanks for the advice, did not know this.

IANAL, you sort of can, but mainly in compensation for expenses you incurred based on expecting them to come through.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#American_law

So if someone offers you a job and you quit your previous job, only to find out your new job is no longer on the table, then you can sue for lost wages?

Let's just say that it's possible-enough that you should ask a real lawyer about what they think :p

Would you work for an employer that you had to sue to force them to allow you to work there?

I think the point would be because of the time wasting on the employer's part.

More likely you would be suing for monetary damages, such as the wages you lost by leaving your previous job, any money you spent on relocation, etc.

yeah, we have this possibility in France, and I wouldn't feel confortable. I guess most of the times people asks for money and leave instead of asking to be (re-)integrated.