Waiving Job Security

Well, well, isn’t this just dandy. Now employers are demanding that employees sign at-will clauses to protect them (the employer) from wrongful termination litigation! And, who is to protect employees from unfair and damaging working conditions? Are we returning to the Middle Ages of child labor, and subhuman conditions in the work-a-day world? If this country has been the model for the world in areas of industry, commerce, and human rights, how can we accept such downright abuse from employers? If this is to be, surely Hitler-type tactics cannot be far behind!

I hope that there are a lot of Pullins out there, because in unity there is strength! Let the employers find out that they are not gods, only employers, and that abuse in any form is not acceptable under any circumstances! How can a company demand loyalty, production, and an honest day’s work, with a dishonest, unfair, abusive manner of conducting business?

If the employers want protection, let them act in the manner of doing unto others as they would have them do unto them, and you know what folks . . . there would be very few people who would seek the mercy of the courts (which is the only relief employees have now) for any kind of justice in the marketplace. The truth of the matter is that even when the employee wins, he’s lost because in 99 out of 100 cases the companies still have all the advantages. The average employee has neither the time, the money, nor the energy to outclass employers with their corporate lawyers (getting the fattest fees out there in the legal world), and time and energy are always on their side.

How does one equate the pain and suffering the employee lives through for the rest of his or her life, most especially when the employee has given decades of years “to the company?”

For shame.

M. HARTZ

Garden Grove