Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!MC.LCS.MIT.EDU!KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU From: KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: Firing Message-ID: <12263065827.2.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 15-Dec-86 16:12:30 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12263065827.2.MCGREW Posted: Mon Dec 15 16:12:30 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 22:06:35 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: KFL%MX.LCS.MIT.EDU@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu [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 -------