Unless you’re in a union.

No. It's not. It's waaaay below that. Zimbabwe is a 3rd world country. You can't fire someone there (including domestic workers) just like that. You have to give verbal warnings, then 3 written warnings, then get permission from the government to fire them. Only then can you fire them and they usually still have to have a month's notice or payment in lieu. Unless you are firing them for theft, for which you may have to call in the police first.

Don't forget, though, that you may qualify for COBRA insurance after being let go. Only 400- 700 dollars a month per person. Quite affordable for an unemployed person. /s For those that don't know, (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods

Technically thats "at will" employment. Right to work means you dont have join a union or pay dues

You can often collect unemployment if you weren’t fired for “cause”, which generally means you didn’t do anything illegal or immoral to get fired. But it’s not a guarantee.

That's sounds like typical political word twisting! Leave it up to some think tank against freedom to call itself 'Freedom America' or a law that's against green energy 'Free choice green energy'. Or whatever.

You also can leave a job at will. It goes both ways.

I am from Canada. Things are getting rough here too however we seem to be better off than the U.S. Unemployment and Healthcare for example

Our fire you right before retiremnet

Unions are not banned or restricted in any state, they are protected by federal law against any state law intended to eliminate or restrict them. It may be difficult to organize a union and most employers actively discourage them (which is also illegal), but they are fully legal in all 50 states.

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It took me a while to realize that "Right to work" meant "Right to work without union representation".

A right to work state means you can work in a union shop without being a member of the union. You're thinking of employment at will.

Taking you serious, giving you insights from Germany: Minimum wage 12 EUR/h. No work day longer than 10h, no work week longer than 48h. With more than 6h you need to have a break of 30mins, above 9h it's 45mins. Paid sick leave for 6 weeks from your employer, if you go above 6 weeks you will be paid 70% of your former salary by your health insurance for 78weeks. Health care is always included. Legal amount of vacation days is at least 20days/year, at the moment employers give you 30days/year. 6-8 weeks paid leave before you give birth, up to 3years with 60% of your former salary to care for your children (women and men). You cannot be fired without (good!) reason, and there is always a notice period, which starts with 4 weeks but can go up to 6months, depending your work-contract. When you get unemployed, you can receive 60% of your former salary, also health insurrance and pension rates are included. If you are unemployed on longterm, the income drops to around 500 EUR/month plus rent for your appartment.

In France, very similar to Germany, we have a minimum number of holidays, minimum wage (actually livable, even though it's getting tougher with inflation and we should seriously raise it), maximum number of hours to be worked in a day and in a week, and minimum number of resting hours in a raw (for example an employer cannot make you work 8h a day in 4 bits of 2h spread over 24h, even if 8h work is below the daily limit because you would not have the minimum hours of rest in one stretch). We usually have 3 months notice when we get fired and we get some amount of money for it that depends on our salary and how long we were in the company. There are many more but here are some out the top of my head.

Canada: - Access to healthcare has nothing to do with employment status - There may be a 1-3 month probation period, but otherwise a minimum of two weeks' notice for layoff or firing, or all paid if need to be gone immediately - Vacation based on seniority: Minimum two weeks paid vacation (over and above legal holidays) after first year, three after five years. - Pregnancy: Job cannot be permanently given to someone else: same or equivalent when you return - Quebec: One year maternity leave and five weeks paternity, but parents can share how they choose. - 6 to 10 sick days per year. Many organizations encourage people to take them as "wellness" days in order to prevent falling sick or burning out. Why? because sick or burnt out employees have a way of spreading this to others, so net productivity falls. - Minimum wage varies between $13.50 and $16 Cdn per hour, depending part of country. - Unemployment insurance if laid off through no fault of own. - There are more....

In the UK: Workers are entitled to certain employment rights, including: getting the National Minimum Wage, protection against unlawful deductions from wages, the statutory minimum level of paid holiday, the statutory minimum length of rest breaks, to work no more than 48 hours on average per week or to opt out of this right if they choose, protection against unlawful discrimination, protection for ‘whistleblowers’ who report wrongdoing in the workplace, not to be treated less favourably if they work part-time. https://www.gov.uk/employment-status/worker

If you ever did mention them you would be accused of wanting socialism for the U.S. You are expected to be proud of your ability to either pull yourself up with your own bootstraps or fall on your a*s if you can't.

Quite a bit of the world actually use contracts, so they outline what you can and can't get let go for, what/when you can quit, etc. They are enforceable against both employer and employee.

Well, there's US Federally mandated workers rights, and then there's the rights that the boss chooses to give you. Technically, every worker can discuss their wages but the boss can fire you 5 seconds later saying your service is no longer needed. The worker can't prove the boss broke federal law and the boss knows it. That former employee now has to find another job quickly to keep a roof over their head. You can be fired at any time, for any reason or no reason, without warning, just poof! Job gone.

The right to join a union, you can't be let go without verbal, then written warnings, acknowledged or signed by you, you can sue fir unfair dismissal, you have the right to maternity leave, sick leave, paid holidays and (usually) a couple of personal days a year, you can't be fired if you are off sick or on maternity leave, you get free health care and a government pension... Should I go on, or are you crying yet?

Employment rights in the United Kingdom Workers are entitled to certain employment rights, including: . getting the National Minimum Wage protection against unlawful deductions from wages the statutory minimum level of paid holiday the statutory minimum length of rest breaks to work no more than 48 hours on average per week or to opt out of this right if they choose protection against unlawful discrimination protection for ‘whistleblowers’ who report wrongdoing in the workplace not to be treated less favourably if they work part-time An employer can only dismiss an employee without giving notice if it's because of gross misconduct They may also be entitled to: Statutory Sick Pay Statutory Maternity Pay Statutory Paternity Pay Statutory Adoption Pay Shared Parental Pay

How hard is it to form union in States? Because here all you need is three employees signing up, delivering one copy of the union declaration to HR, one to... hard to translate, but basically union union (they will even help you get lawer if needed) and putting one copy in shared place in the workplace. That is all. Usually people pay 1-10% of income to union and they can claim some things from it.

Yup. Or in my case, as an infectious disease nurse, I spoke up about something that wasn't right. Fired that week. No reason.

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Lefty Looney's destroyed everything

Hey, watch your mouth! We're world leaders! Number 1 in Teen pregnancy, number one in income inequality, number one in recidivism, number one in people lacking health care! Because FREEDOM, FAMILY VALUES /S

And you better not be a clock watcher. Your job's your life now!

And in non-right-to-work states, teachers in probationary periods, which could be up to 5 years.

Well I live in one and our standard of living is high, but only because our unemployment rate is usually quite low. Look at cities where the main industry has left and yeah, that’s about right.

You must be crazy