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Anyone who has run a business for more than a week knows you don't need a good reason to fire someone, just can't use a bad one.
In Oklahoma they just need to say a person's services are no longer required... end of story.
You can TRY and claim otherwise- good luck with that, the system is NOT set-up to support the worker.
The threat of lawsuit is also dicey- first you need to have been fired from a company big enough to be worth an attorney's time and effort, next you need more than your say so- you really think the other guys will get fired over you?
You need to be a rare commodity- truck drivers are not rare, I know plenty working under crap contracts with the dispatch company because there are lots of truck drivers around.
Right! That's called a layoff, which means you have to pay unemployment.
Ever hear of a "pink slip"?
To me the editor being fired shows that 'conservative' opinions on what constitutes freedom of speech gets trumped by Capitalism's idea of 'I pay your wages, you make me happy or I'll find someone else'. The marketplace spoke- it didn't like what that editor printed, and demanded a chance if the business was to continue getting their hard earned money.
What part of marketplace forces do 'conservatives' not understand?
Funny how Libbos throw people's right out the window, when those rights no longer serve their purposes.