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Author Your Legacy — Tuesday May 21, 2013 Employment is a
contract between two parties, one being the employer and the
other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A
person in the service of another under any contract of hire,
express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the
power or right to control and direct the employee in the
material details of how the work is to be performed." Black's
Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979). In a commercial setting,
the employer conceives of a productive activity, generally with
the intention of creating profits, and the employee contributes
labour to the enterprise, usually in return for payment of
wages. In the United States, the "standard" employment contract
is considered to be at-will meaning that the employer and
employee are both free to terminate the employment at any time
and for any cause, or for no cause at all. However, if a
termination of employment by the employer is dee