At-Will Employment

Answer 1. At-will employment is a doctrine of American law that defines an employment relationship in which either party can break the relationship with no liability, provided there was no express contract for a definite term governing the employment relationship and that the employer does not belong to a collective bargaining group. Employment, according to doctrine, is an “at-will’ relation that comes into existence when two parties willingly enter into an agreement and the relation continues to exist only as long as both parties will that is does so. both employee and employers have the right to enter into any mutually agreeable arrangement without outside interference. Each parties is also free to end an arrangement at anytime without violating
I lump the exceptions into three categories.
(1) Contract: If an employee has a contract with the employer, that contract may require legitimate “cause” for a job termination to occur. For example, it is common for union-employer contracts (collective bargaining agreements) to define “cause” in specific terms that say an employee cannot be fired unless he or she has specific types of performance or conduct problems. These contractual terms modify employment from employment at will into for-cause. If the employer fires the employee without showing it was for “cause” as defined in the contract, then the termination could give rise to a legal
advertising that makes false claims or misleading statements, as well as advertising that creates a false impression. If retailers systematically advertise merchandise at low prices to get customers into their stores and then fail to have the merchandise, they are guilty of deceptive advertising. Deceptive practices can take many other forms as well, such as false promises, unsubstantiated claims, incomplete descriptions, false testimonials or comparisons, small-print qualifications of advertisements, partial disclosure, or visual distortion of products. Anyone-including the manufacturer of a product, the advertising agency preparing the advertisement, the retailer, or even a celebrity who endorses a product-can be prosecuted for making unsubstantiated claims about a product or service. As a matter of fact, any advertising that leads the consumer to make purchase decisions based on false assumptions about the price and quality of competitive products is considered deceptive practice and is punishable by law. responsibility for enforcement of the laws dealing with unfair and deceptive advertising comes under the jurisdiction of the Federal trade