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or moderate transgression.
Truth: in states like Massachusetts that are
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contract that says otherwise, an employee can be fired for
a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all, so long
as the termination is not discriminatory or done in
retaliation for the employee exercising a legally protected
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employer from lawsuits for firing an employee. My
colleague in all likelihood did not violate any law in his
handling of the termination, but was still correct that he
may have opened himself up to a lawsuit. Why?
Because (i) discrimination and retaliation are not difficult
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