The Evolution of Employment Rights: The North American Context

Abstract

“As employee attitudes and actions reflect the increased public concern with social and environmental problems and the proper role of the corporation in p articipating in their solution, traditional doctrines of the employee's duties of loyalty and obedience and the employer's right of discharge will undergo increasing change…. The real question is to establish civilised parameters of permissible conduct that will not keep employees from expressing themselves… and at the same time will not introduce elements of breach of confidentiality and impairment of loyalty that will materially impair the functioning of the corporation itself. A balancing of interests, not a blind reiteration of traditional doctrines is required”.

Citation

Wright, P.C. and Hartin, P. (1997), "The Evolution of Employment Rights: The North American Context", Management Research News, Vol. 20 No. 5, pp. 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb028563