Some worker’s right activists don’t want you to understand at-will employment. Instead, concentrate on the right you have to an employer’s continued indulgence with a paycheck: Off-duty behavior can affect job:
Some companies are cracking down on employees’ off-duty behavior, raising questions about how far employers should go in policing what workers do on their own time.
Employees are being disciplined or fired for such behaviors as drinking on their own time, using competitors’ products and displaying political bumper stickers. No one tracks the number of such cases, but some workers rights’ groups are concerned that the practice is on the upswing.
“The shock is that there’s no legal protection,” says Lewis Maltby, of The National Workrights Institute, a non-profit based in Princeton, N.J., that focuses on employee rights. “You can get fired just for having a bumper sticker the boss doesn’t like.”
Yes, that is how it works. Kind of like the worker can leave the job at any time with two week’s notice if they’re polite or right now if their employer does something the worker doesn’t like or if the worker doesn’t like the work, if the worker has something better to do, or if the worker gets a better job.
No, workers’ rights advocates want one-way indentured servitude: they want employers on the hook for perpetual employment.
