The Delaware legislature has introduced a bill to require “just cause” for terminating an employee, which represents a significant departure from employment law practice in every other state but Montana. The standard overarching employment law across the country is “employment at will.” In most states this is common law, and in a few it is statutory law.
Under the employment at will doctrine, an employee may be terminated at any time for any reason, or for no reason at all. This is, of course, subject to the requirements of other state and federal law concerning employment relationships, public policy concerns, and terms of employment contracts. But could this standard be changing?
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