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Anyone else think "at will" work states are a joke? Is it just me?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 576789" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Canadian perspective? I cannot possibly imagine not having the Labour Relations Board. Not because employers can't find a way to do pretty much what they want anyway, but because it levels the playing field. The independent third party (LRB) does get in the way of employers claiming to fire for just cause - and then having no documentation. It usually doesn't preserve a job, but can reinstate benefits, force missing back-pay, those sorts of things. It's a quasi-judicial body (not a court, but the company must comply). Not perfect. But it does mean that even those without union representation (most of us) still have "somebody" with clout to speak for us when obvious wrong is being done.</p><p></p><p>Employers need to be able to run their business... including managing the "culture", which sometimes means otherwise good employees turn out to not be a fit. They can be let go under various guises (most frequent is "position was eliminated"... they then create a new position with a different title and a slight twist to the job description). But they cannot be punished by the company by falsifying information and causing the person to not receive benefits... and when job-hunting, it's always nicer to be able to say "the position was eliminated"... even when we all know that it was probably a bit more "grey" than that.... it wasn't bad enough to "get fired".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 576789, member: 11791"] Canadian perspective? I cannot possibly imagine not having the Labour Relations Board. Not because employers can't find a way to do pretty much what they want anyway, but because it levels the playing field. The independent third party (LRB) does get in the way of employers claiming to fire for just cause - and then having no documentation. It usually doesn't preserve a job, but can reinstate benefits, force missing back-pay, those sorts of things. It's a quasi-judicial body (not a court, but the company must comply). Not perfect. But it does mean that even those without union representation (most of us) still have "somebody" with clout to speak for us when obvious wrong is being done. Employers need to be able to run their business... including managing the "culture", which sometimes means otherwise good employees turn out to not be a fit. They can be let go under various guises (most frequent is "position was eliminated"... they then create a new position with a different title and a slight twist to the job description). But they cannot be punished by the company by falsifying information and causing the person to not receive benefits... and when job-hunting, it's always nicer to be able to say "the position was eliminated"... even when we all know that it was probably a bit more "grey" than that.... it wasn't bad enough to "get fired". [/QUOTE]
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