• FourThirteen@lemmy.world
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      Aside from Montana, the remaining 49 are “at will” employment states. You can be fired for any reason at any time, aside from if your employment is terminated for being part of a protected class, regardless of if you are a contractor or not. There are some jobs that have more protections, like union jobs (yay unions). There are also some employment agreements that are not at will if I believe too.

      You can also leave your job at any time for any reason in an at will state.

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          In some countries you must submit a letter of resignation a few weeks or months in advance, otherwise you don’t get resignation bonuses and your employer might even take you to court for lost productivity. Of course, this only applies to people who are simply quitting for personal reasons.

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            I was recently visiting the Scandinavian office of my American company, and there was a going away party for one of the employees. When he was talking he said something along the lines of “when I resigned X months ago I didn’t know I’d be here this long” and I was a bit confused at first.

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              1 month notice is in law in Hungary. 2 months in contracts are pretty standard at this point. Now I see more and more 3 months. (I personally have 2.)

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                How is that enforced? Just financial incentives?

                Somebody above mentioned resignation bonuses, which sounds like it’s just terms in your contract.