right to work laws

[benjamin-benjamin]

can someone explain the right to work laws in oklahoma, just curious because i have heard different things regrading it...

 

[bsmith918]

I didn't think there was much in the way of Oklahoma's right to work laws. I know you can be let go for no reason at all and really almost without so much as an explanation. Sorry I can't give a better explanation.

 

[benjamin-benjamin]

see that is what i thought also, but someone was saying that was not the case... not a big deal, me and the wife were talking about it tonight because her friend got fired (not going to get into the story) but i said you could get let go pretty much for anything and she said that wasn't what she heard....anyways not a big deal..

 

[bsmith918]

You can draw unemployment, as long as you don't sign a letter of resignation or something stating that you are quitting your job. I had a company let me go once and they tried to get me to sign a resignation form so that I couldn't draw unemployment.

 

[redneck1861]

Unless it is a job with a contract. Your job can fire you without giving any notice or reason. It also means you can quit a job without notice or giving a reason. That is the plain and simple reason

 

[KillShot]

You can draw unemployment, as long as you don't sign a letter of resignation or something stating that you are quitting your job.

Incorrect. If your employer terminates your employment with cause, you will receive no unemployment benefits. Additionally, your employer can fire you for any reason, or no reason whatsoever. Furthermore, your employer is not required to give you any breaks during your shift and there is nothing you can do about it.

 

[Dieseltech09]

Right to work laws deal with Unions. Before Oklahoma passed the right to work laws if you worked for place that either had or voted in a Union you had to join and pay dues as a condition of employment. Since the law passed, I belive it was 2001, you can not be required to join an Union as a condition of employment. For example where I work we have a Union but since Oklahoma is a right to work state I do not have to join or pay dues to the Union, which I do not. It has nothing to do with "at will" employment

 

[Brian Altenhofel]

From the HR legal topic meetings I've passed through (was providing tech support, so I never got to hear the whole thing), it's a lot more complicated than letting an employer fire you for whatever reason. The employer still has to be careful with what inferences can be made.

But as for Right to Work, Dieseltech is right that it protects the choice of a citizen on whether they join a union or not. However, in some places not joining the union severely limits the ability of you to move up.

 

[jtischauser]

From my days of hiring and firing it meant we laid people off with no real reason so as not to giv ethe employee a reason to sue us. I know thats not the legal mumbo jumbo way of putting it but that's what it meant to us in the real world.