[sp332]

All 50 states have "at-will" employment, which means the employer can let the employee go or the employee can choose to leave at any time with no reason given. There are limitations on certain kinds of jobs, and severance packages are common but only for full-time or salaried employees I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment

[hwstar]

49 states have at-will employment. The exception is Montana. In Montana, they have 'just cause' similar to the rest of the developed world.

[dogma1138]

While At-Will might suck the other side of it is not having to give 2-3 months notice which isn't that uncommon in the UK and some other European countries.

While you might be able to get out of those periods it makes switching a job quite hard, to near impossible especially if you have a rolling contract without a set expiration date.

Every coin has 2 sides, it's easy to look at things in the US and say it's wrong look at the Netherlands they need to drag you to court to fire you.

At the end both extremes result in conditions which are unfavorable to the employee rather than to the employer, you might get some peace of mind not fearing that they might tell you on a friday not to come next monday but with the opposite extreme employers don't want to give permanent contracts or when they do they lock you into such long notice periods that you'll usually have to just drop off all your stuff at 8 am leave a note with lawyer's contact details unless you find some company that will wait 2-3 months for you to give notice..

[yawaramin]

Two to three months is crazy. The norm in Canada is two weeks.