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Not a problem with big companies in right-to-work states. They can fire anyone for any reason, good or bad, or for no reason at all. On the other hand, I've always worked in a right-to-work state, and my last employer was very lenient about people.
There was one poor girl who not only didn't see a difference between "sale" and "sell," but said there ought not to be a difference. It was 6 months before she was out the door.
But some people did disappear suddenly. I was working one night and saw an attorney loading his stuff into his car. He had been let go and had to remove his things immediately. So he was there one day and gone the next, and we had no clue there was a problem.
There was also another girl who was dragging her feet on a major project. The boss called her out in the middle of the day and had her escorted from the building. I had to clean up her computer afterwards and take over the project, and the girl was actually keeping a database on the company computer of her movie collection. Not that it matters, but she was a lesbian.
Thats not true. Am in PA and people still do the HR dance in every big company ive seen or been apart of. Its all about avoiding any lawsuits or negative image.
Every company has to tip toe or they could become the next sesame place here accused of racism.
Maybe your company, or even your state, is special. I just know how every company I've worked for in NC did things. A boss would just go up to someone and say we don't need you anymore. Gather your personal belongings and leave. In the case of one factory job, the tool box was examined by the boss, sealed, and then reexamined at the gate on the way out. No notice is required by either party. I left a job high and dry in the middle of a rush time.
On the other hand, I think PA is special. I went there to do genealogy work and found that the state archives were locked away in a windowless tower. They were accessible only by choosing a record from the catalog, submitting a request, and then waiting for the records priest to go fetch that one item. You couldn't browse anything at all, and it would have taken years to have done what I could have done in a day or two in NC archives. Philadelphia wouldn't even let me look at old deeds. Here in NC, the clerk points the way and says have at it. So I can look through original records from back in the 1700s.
Not true. They cannot fire someone for being a protected class (sex, race, disability, etc.)
Which means that they risk a lawsuit if they fire someone for a flaky reason or for no reason at all. The person fired will claim that they were fired because they are a protected class, which puts the employer in a position where they essentially have to prove why they were actually fired. Courts are always subjective, even if that's not how the law is suppose to work.
That's why big companies have HR and that's why HR makes it so difficult to fire someone.
I took law classes that taught about this. Right to work in NC definitely means exactly what I said.
Those law classes must have skipped over the Civil Rights Act of 1964, where the federal government, with the blessing of the Supreme Court (which is bullshit, by the way), dictates that employers may not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
No matter what your state law says, if you fire someone for these reasons, you can easily get in hot water legally.
And, because of how flaky this shit is, it's very easy for an employee to "prove" discrimination in court, even if you didn't even think about their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin when you chose to fire them. So HR departments, in order to protect the company, typically make it very hard to fire someone.
It was business law classes. Of course, it would be stupid to fire someone and tell it's because they're black. But you can choose other reasons or just not give a reason. That's perfectly legal with at-will employment.