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[kydonky]

Kentucky is an "at will employment state"

Private industry can fire anyone, anytime for any reason. (other than discrimination,issues .....black, white, jewish, girl, boy ect.)

Don't like pants..fired

Don't like haircut...fired

Can the employee collect unemployment benifits. Yes!

Can employer be sued. No!

If the employee looses his job through no fault of hisown he can get unemployment benifits. But thats it. (unless discrimination laws were broken)

This can be changed with a contract. Union employment is contract labor. However, there are many types of contract labor that do not involve unions. Subcontracting is an example. Distributorships another. And many companies offer a contract with employment (outside of union representation). Break a contract and you can be sued.