Yes, of course.
If you have a right to quit a job, then an employer has the right to make you quit. Private property is not the government; it does not owe "equal" treatment to anybody.
This same principle applies to the smoking-ban debate. The real issue here has nothing to do with "health" or "economic effects," or any of that blather. The real issue is the rights of property owners. If I own a piece of property, it is up to me -- and ME ONLY -- to determine what legal activities may take place on that property.
There's nothing "public" about any private property, no matter how successful the left has been at pulling the wool over Americans' eyes for the past half-century. And, yes, that wool-pulling includes many aspects of the Civil Rights Act.
It's disturbing to see that so many conservatives have bought into the entitlement mentality -- "entitled" to a smoke-free environment in a privately owned restaurant, "entitled" to not being fired by a private employer, etc. This place is still called Free Republic, right?
To call it a "slippery slope" isn't even accurate anymore; clearly, the left has won this particular battle in the war to instill socialism in the American psyche.
That's an understatement.
It is beyond my comprehensive ablities, which are none too shabby, to understand how any right thinking person can and will gladly accept the idea that a private business is in someway public property.
We need more people who understand the concept of property rights vs. selfish interests.
So employers, by this logic. can go back to "sweat-shop" mentality? Can bosses fondle (and worse) female employees? Smack employees around? Refuse to pay them after they performed their duties? Why not? According to you they can do it ... why stop at that ... employee wants to quit, knows secrets he can use at a competitor ... kill him.