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This 15 page research paper begins by briefly summarizing a New York Times article that reports a massive layoff of pharmaceutical workers in New Jersey due to a merger. The information in this article relates to the information discussed in chapter 17 of Beatty and Samuelson's text on business law, Introduction to Business Law, in that it applies to the topic of employment security directly, and to other topics indirectly, such as at-will employment. The writer/tutor, first of all, summarizes information that is relevant to these topics and then offers conclusions regarding the political, social and ethical ramifications of employment security and at-will employment, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical industry. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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analysts, the merger is designed to cut costs for both companies and would eliminate roughly 15 percent of the jobs at Merck. The article goes on to mention that
other locations, such as North Carolina, are attracting the pharmaceutical industry, as it searches further for ways to reduce their costs (McGeehan, 2009). The information in this article relates
to the information discussed in chapter 17 of Beatty and Samuelsons text on business law, Introduction to Business Law, in that it applies to the topic of employment security directly,
and to other topics indirectly, such as at-will employment. The writer/tutor, first of all, summarizes information that is relevant to these topics and then offers conclusions regarding the political,
social and ethical ramifications of employment security and at-will employment, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical industry. Background Information Through the vast majority of human history, people simply
moved into the jobs or the niche in the society occupied by their parents. Basic English employment law, which is the legal system from which the American system evolved, dictated
that an employee was hired for a year unless there was a contract indicating otherwise. This was to protect tenant farmers in an agriculturally based economy. In other words, if
someone worker through the harvest season, the landowners could not summarily fire him during the winter; and, likewise, the farmer worker could not stay through the winter and then look
for more gainful employment when the spring planting season approached (Beatty and Samuelson, 2010). With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, at-will employment came into being. The "common law
employment at will doctrine was created by the courts" (Beatty and Samuelson, 2010, p. 281). It stated basically that an employee could leave a job "for a good reason, a
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