Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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At will.
subject to one's discretion; as one wishes or chooses; esp. (of a legal relationship), able to be terminated or discharged by either party without cause <employment at will>.
employment at will.
Employment that is usu. undertaken without a contract and that may be terminated at any time, by either the employer or the employee, without cause. -Also termed at-will employment; hiring at will. "Surprisingly, the employment at will doctrine is not an ancient one. On the contrary, it dates only from the period in the mid-nineteenth century that saw the transformation of the employment relation from one of status to one of contract. The relentlesat will' had no legal interest in continuing job security. Whereas early American masters had some responsibility to the public as well as to their servants when they turned dependent servants out on the world, under [this] formulation, masters could simp