[Excerpt] International visitors are sometimes shocked by the way American laws fail to protect workers. They wonder how our employment law contains a doctrine of at-will employment that says we can be fired for a good reason, a bad reason or no reason at all. This is one of the many areas of worker rights in which the U.S. is unusual, and as the City of Ithacam oves toward replacing this with Just Cause protections, it will be watched across the country.