Moreover, as a condition of employment, many (most?) US workers must sign an “employment agreement” which is essentially a legal document written by the company, for the company. It’s like an employment contract except with terms that only benefit the company.
Legally speaking, you always have a contract when working for someone. Even if it's implicit and oral only.
You even have a contract when you are buying a piece of candy at the newsstand.
(At least in the common law world. In eg German law technically you have one contract for the piece of candy, and one contract for each individual coin you are handing over. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_principle_(law) Germans are a bit crazy.)
Huh? Literally the first sentence in that article starts with
> At-will employment is a term used in U.S. labor law for contractual relationships [...]
Emphasis on contractual.
Or am I missing something?
A contract that can be dissolved at will is still a contract. Just like you can cancel your Netflix subscription at will, and it's still a valid legal contract.
