What are the important issues with the At-Will Law?

Law545x
Fall 2015
Sullivan University
Charles Wayne Wood

Abstract Introduction
In exploring the history of the At-Will law I hope avoid first person to review the positive and negative effects on the At-Will law dealing with employee and employers, does it help both new sentence?? I will explore contracts between employees and employers, how can they be terminated, and if so does the employee get paid till the end of the contract. I will discuss the possibilities of just causes on the employee or employer can they be used to terminate the contract. awkward Do the different states have laws that help the employees or the employer? At the end of this research I hope to show trends in the law as it has changed in the past 10 to 15 years.
The History of the Law The At-Will law was first created? by Horace Wood (1877). As my research has let me to believe Mr. Wood only created the concept of At-Will employment, he stated that the courts have already accepted it as the doctrine of the time. Mr. Wood’s statements were the catalyst of what’s the beginning of a number of new laws creating the At-Will employment doctrine. In his writing Sandler (2000), also agrees that Mr. Wood helped the courts pull away from the rules and laws set by the English at the time and helped to establish the new law for the USA. The general rule in American employment has been that an employment relationship for no specified duration may be terminated at any time and for any reason (or no reason) by either the employee or employer. This rule is known as the "At-Will" doctrine (Hunter 1999). Redundant? As an indication of the spirit of that era, in the first third of the Twentieth Century, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld individual freedom of contract and