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Employment At Will: A Legal Perspective

By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher M. Bruner
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:7
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Abstract

Provides a brief overview of the employment-at-will doctrine, an important concept unique to the U.S. legal system and business landscape. Briefly surveys the history and development of this doctrine and certain limitations and exceptions to it, as well as some of the distinguishing features of the employment termination process in the United States relative to other countries.

Keywords

Business History; Resignation and Termination; Employment; Common Law; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; United States

Citation

Paine, Lynn S., and Christopher M. Bruner. "Employment At Will: A Legal Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 306-036, August 2005. (Revised April 2015.)
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