Five of the six leading candidates for the speaker’s chair in the City Council say employers should be required to show just cause to fire someone, and they support passing legislation to that effect in the coming year.
The comments, made at a forum on Monday night, set the stage for a potential upheaval in labor law from the standard of at-will employment in New York and drew swift condemnation from business leaders. The at-will standard gives employers broad discretion over hiring and firing, with some limits for employees in protected classes.
At a forum hosted by the Working Families Party, a moderator noted that most New York
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