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I imagine they want to be able to let people go without building extensive cases against them. While being let go without a good reason isn't fun, neither is working with toxic people while the company tries to build a case against them.

> If the employer normally isn't firing people without a good reason

Isn't this the default state of affairs for american private enterprise? This is why PIPs are so wildly popular—it's trivial to fabricate performance reasoning regardless of the actual motivations for firing.

Granted, I don't see how you could negotiate your way out of this. We need federal labor protections to make serious movement on this.

Because. Employers are firing people without a good reason. It makes the stock price go up. And even the threat of it keeps the masses in check.