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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.
Are you even reading?
It is legal to fire someone for any reason or not reason at all. However, that doesn't stop the former employee from lying and saying that you fired them because they were black.
To win a civil rights act case, you don't need a quote of them explicitly saying you were fired because you were black. You can prove to the court with more circumstantial evidence.
If you were the only black person in the department and you can prove you were performing equally well as your other coworkers, for example. If you can then cite a racist joke your superior made that you overheard, you have an even stronger case.
You may have actually been fired because you weren't performing well enough, but if you can conjure numbers that show you were, even though they don't paint the whole picture, you can make a compelling case it was because you were black.
This is literally why HR departments are so prevalent, even in at-will states. They're there to protect the company.
I understand the law. You also seem to understand the law (although you clearly forgot about the Civil Rights Act until I reminded you). But you're not understanding people or courts or how they all act.