Legal Question in Employment Law in Virginia
Employment
My employer has requested we read a new guidebook and then sign. There's a line that concerns me. ''I understand that my employment is at will meaning that it may be terminated by me or the company at any time for any reason with or without cause and with or without notice.'' My concern is I may give up some legal rights if I sign. Will I?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Employment
No, you will not be giving up any rights because your prospective employer has provided a very succinct and accurate statement as to what your rights may be under an employment at will jurisdiction such as the Commonwealth of Virginia: virtually nil unless you are working under a contract of employment which may protect you from adverse employer actions or you are victimized by some reasonably verifiable violation of federal anti-discrimination laws which are unlikely to apply to your very particularized employment situation.
Yep, in other words, your signing this particular document means exactly nothing in terms of your giving up rights which I can assure you are non-existent outside of the aforementioned terms which I've labored at some extent to outline here in this particular post.
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