Employee Handbooks and Employment-at-Will Contracts

Employee handbooks and employment-at-will contracts.

A Catholic Theology Of Employment-at-Will.

Objectives:  to understand the unique relationship employment-at-will creates between employer and employee;  to examine the intersection of recent papal thought on the dignity of work and this unique relationship; and  to determine the implications of this intersection for a continually financially stained Catholic healthcare systems.

Employee Handbooks and the Legal Effect of Disclaimers

Employment Contracts, the Psychological Contract and Employee Outcomes: an Analysis and Review of the Evidence

There has been growing interest in the impact of flexible employment contracts on workers affected by them. In the light of assumptions that such workers are significantly disadvantaged, European-wide legislation has been introduced to ensure that they are treated similarly to permanent employees. The evidence on the impact of flexible employment contracts on employees’ attitudes and behaviour ...

Consumption Commitments and Employment Contracts*

We examine an economy in which the cost of consuming some goods can be reduced by making commitments that reduce flexibility. We show that such consumption commitments can induce consumers with riskneutral underlying utility functions to be risk averse over small variations in income, but sometimes to seek risk over large variations. As a result, optimal employment contracts will smooth wages c...