Thank you for visiting our site. The purpose of abolishemploymentatwill.com is to educate the public about the Employment At Will doctrine, a legal principle developed during the 1800's and early 1900's that, in the opinion of various legal scholars, is outdated and should be abolished. We hope that after good faith discussion and debate about the issue, state legislatures, state courts, and the United States Congress will consider whether the principles that led to the derivation of the doctrine are applicable in today’s workplace. "Employment at will" allows an employer to terminate the employment relationship "for a good reason, a bad reason, and no reason at all."� The doctrine has been criticized because of the evolution of the workplace, societal changes, and the increased importance of job security. While jobs may have been more fungible during the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, allowing workers to more easily transition into new employment, the changes over the last century have increased the importance of job security. Gone are the days when an employee can lose a job without just cause and be able to find another job without enduring substantial economic uncertainty. Abolition of the doctrine would not guarantee lifetime employment, which is often the argument that employers advance in support of the doctrine; rather, abolition of the doctrine would simply require that an employer have a legitimate reason, be it economic or performance related, to end the employment relationship.