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I need a response to my teachers question on my discussion post

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To protect their right to fire at will, many employers ask job applicants and new employees to sign a written statement agreeing that they are (or will be) employed at will. This appears in an employment application, an employment contract or offer letter that the employer asks you to sign and return, an acknowledgment form for an employee handbook.

It is not wise to sign at-will agreement if someone relied on employer's promises of continued employment at start of a job. If any employer promised, during the hiring process, that it would give you an extension or a new job and that you would not be fired during that time. Such a promise if influenced the decision to take the job, then is is not wise to sign an at-will agreement contradicting the promise because every court will treat a signed at-will agreement as the final word on the subject whatever the employer said earlier as there is no proof of earlier commitment between an employee and his employer.

There are no flaws in the hospital's position as everything was well informed to Mr. Fuse by the hospital at the time of joining. It was Mr. Fuse, who agreed and signed at-will agreement 5 years back and no he cannot claim to know the reason to fire him.

But it is not good for any industry specially the medical industry because of the simple fact that the employee always work in a way to please his boss, to make him happy and this could lead to the compromise with the honest approach at work. Also It is almost impossible for senior managers to hear about problems with junior managers, supervisors in the organization. Why would any employee speak up about poor leadership? Moreover in a medical industry the focus should be on job not to save the job as someone’s life may at stake.

So company should set higher standard for employee discipline and termination. The hospital must show employees that merely speaking up or having a different opinion from their boss will not get them in trouble, the more trust will grow in your organization.

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My teachers question

So even though they are "at-will" employees, are they not, at least implicitly, expected to provide the employer with some type of notice?

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Answer:

Even tough they are at-will employees,they should provide the employer some notice period of time or they should inform the empoyer indirectly becuase these employees have signed an agreement.So with that agreement the employer can file a case against the employee if he terminates his job suddenly.As he has signed the agreement he has to inform the employer before his termination otherwise this will become a legal case and the employer can take action legally.The employee should provide notice so that explains his employee discipline and commitment towards work.If the employee does not believe the employer then he should not have signed the at-will earlier

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