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This article presents employment termination as a question of social justice. Two main competing models for legal rules governing the dismissal of individual employees are detailed: The U.S. modified Employment at Will approach and the common European Just Cause approach. A method of moral analysis is proposed for assessing the conflicting arguments behind each model. A series of questions are identified that can serve as a research program for arriving at a normative judgment concerning the relative moral merits of the competing models.
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McCall, J.J. Dismissal policies in the united states and europe: Employment at will versus just cause. Soc Just Res 10, 253–265 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02683316
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