... we first began to see a switch from the at-will employment of the past towards an employee based future. Although a collective bargaining agreement is a common employment contract it may not be the most common. Employment contracts are everywhere in the employment process, from the interview to the offer letter, to the employee handbook distributed on their first day of employment.3 Employment contracts can be written as in the case of the offer letter and the employee handbook, but they can also be implied as in the interview. Today an employer cannot simply renege on an agreement made in a contractual form with the employee; this contract will be held up in a court of law.4 If in the employee handbook it states a progressive disciplinary process leading to termination. The employer must follow the contract that they have agreed upon with the employee, failure to do so is in ...

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