Exploring At-Will Employment: What It Means, How to Preserve It, When Exceptions Apply

While an at-will employee can theoretically be fired at any time, with or without any reason, there is a common misconception that doing so immunizes your agency from any liability or legal consequences. In fact, there are several major exceptions to the at-will rule and reliance on at-will employment alone to support terminating an employee can present significant risk to your organization.  Learn how you may be compromising your ability to rely solely on the nature of at-will employment in terminating employees without noticing it and how you can reduce risk and preserve the at-will doctrine.