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[Due an error on my part, the reply to this message appeared in the
last issue of Poli-Sci.  My apologies to both gentlemen - CWM]

    From: mcgeer%sirius.Berkeley.EDU@BERKELEY.EDU (Rick McGeer)

            Wrongo, Keith.  Under current law in most states employers
    are subject to a civil suit if they dismiss an employee without
    cause, and may be forced to rehire the employee and pay damages if
    cause cannot be shown.

  I oppose those laws, of course.  Don't you?  If not, please tell us
how you would feel about a law which subjected shoppers to civil suits
for ceasing to shop at a given store without cause, or which subjected
employees to civil suits for resigning from their jobs without cause?
  If there were such laws, don't you think that shoppers would be very
reluctant to try shopping at a new store, knowing that they wouldn't
be allowed to stop shopping there without being subject to a lawsuit?
Wouldn't employees be reluctant to start working for a given company
if they knew that they would not be allowed to quit?  And don't you
think that proponents of these laws would point out how these very
reluctances as evidence that the laws are needed?
                                                              ...Keith

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