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Re:SpaceX Slapped With Wage Class Action Over Mass Layoff by justin66 on Friday August 08, 2014 @06:00PM (#8155295)
That's pretty much completely wrong, for better or worse. It's called at will employment.

Edit: I wonder if the downvoters who have not bothered to comment realize that every state in the US except Montana has some form of at will employment. The person I was replying to couldn't be more wrong. (The very obvious claim about not being able to fail to pay people is of course true)

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Re:SpaceX Slapped With Wage Class Action Over Mass Layoff by rgbrenner on Friday August 08, 2014 @07:53PM (#8155735)
Edit: I wonder if the downvoters who have not bothered to comment realize that every state in the US except Montana has some form of at will employment. The person I was replying to couldn't be more wrong.

You're being downvoted because you're wrong. At-will employment doesn't mean you can stiff your employees on backwages. It also doesn't mean you don't need to comply with Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) laws, which exist in many (most?) states.

At-will employment doesn't mean the employer gets to do whatever they please.

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