"Employers should be able to hire and fire anyone for any reason or no reason at all."
Can an employer fire someone for the reason that they will not have a sexual fling with the boss? How about someone who is Chinese, and the new boss hates Chinese? What if an employee will not come to your house and clean out your gutters? You DID say any reason?
Yes, I did.
It's not your job. Surely there are other and better ways of dealing with unreasonable employers. Government's legislating and regulating how and when and on whom a capitalist can spend his capital cannot possibly be the best answer.
Thanks for saying that Rawhide. Ohio is an "at will" state for firing and I understand a company wanting this right but if you take it to its extreme conclusion, you come up with what you had. I was thinking they could fire you for going out and eating chinese food because they HATE it or something equally as ludicrous as your examples!