&gt;  if at-will employment were legal I&#x27;d have to save and save and save money for anything because I could not be certain to still have a job tomorrow<p>You&#x27;re not certain to have a job next year (your company, for example, could go out of work; you could be grievously injured; war could sweep through your country). You ought to be saving, saving, saving anyway; building your own savings is the only way to have true security.