Consider this hypothetical:
You don't like the idea of at-will employment. How do you feel about the idea of being able to quit your job at any time?
You're relying on your employer for an income, this is true, and thus being fired in a way you don't feel is justified seems unfair. Naturally.
Your employer is relying on you to do a job and has invested (lets say hypothetically) in your training, and thus you leaving arbitrarily (say you got a better job) seems unfair to them.
One solution to this would be employment contracts that require you to stay at the job and the job to remain open to you, for some period of time under certain conditions.
Would you accept giving up the right to leave arbitrarily in exchange for the employer giving up the right to fire you arbitrarily?
"How do you feel about the idea of being able to quit your job at any time?" - Very strange things are happening here. For example, if you become homeless, you can't exercise your freedom to be on the streets anymore. If you're on the streets, you are _fined_. If you can't pay up, you are prisoned. Now it's easier to see how unjust this is. You will feel less sympathy for a small business owner, who can't exercise his or her freedom to give a job to whoever he or she wants, until he or she wants on whatever terms they agree. But soon you may find yourself "protected" by the state in a very similar fashion, how our poor homeless people are now protected in Hungary.
Actually, this is the common case at least in Germany, and also in a bunch of other European companies. Employment contracts have a termination time that's usually 3 months; if the contract doesn't state anything it goes up even higher over time.
In Poland it works the same. For the first few years it's one month termination time both ways, then 3 months. But many people work on "junk contracts" that does not offer any such protection, and allow employer to pay less taxes (skiping social insurance etc).
We also have paternal vacations, but much shorter - 20 weeks to share between father and mother. And employers still complain that it's too much.
You're relying on your employer for an income, this is true, and thus being fired in a way you don't feel is justified seems unfair. Naturally.
Your employer is relying on you to do a job and has invested (lets say hypothetically) in your training, and thus you leaving arbitrarily (say you got a better job) seems unfair to them.
One solution to this would be employment contracts that require you to stay at the job and the job to remain open to you, for some period of time under certain conditions.
Would you accept giving up the right to leave arbitrarily in exchange for the employer giving up the right to fire you arbitrarily?