skezik, even in right to work states, should you fire an employee without cause, you will pay for that employees unemployment, out of your your own pocket, in cases where your insurance won't pay or in cases where the law demands payment from you directly, not your insurance.
Harassment charges, are generally civil actions, although in some cases it may be criminal. So it will not be a "kangaroo" court that tries you and/or your business.
Then there are those "wrongful discharge" civil Torts. These can cost you also. Again, these cases are not tried in "kangaroo" courts, whatever you may think.
All of the above can and do happen to employers/businesses in right to work states.
skezik said:
This is my right as an owner, the right to fail, the right to make bad choices as well as good. That is what freedom and liberty is.
No one is a slave unless by choice.
Sorry to inform you, but in America, not even by choice.
Employment laws (both criminal and civil) were put into place, to protect employees from just such people as you.
As such, these are not property rights laws. They are employment laws designed to protect employees from the type of abuse that is slavery, and also designed to protect employers from sue happy employees... In the case of right to work States, to protect employers from unions.
Now, as to the actual property rights of the business/business owner, the State may regulate just about any activity you care to name. That comes under the broad heading of the States power to regulate (intrastate) commerce. You, as an owner-employer have no say in how the State regulates your business. The State can ban smoking, for reasons of the general welfare, in your place of business, whether or not you like it.
For those same reasons, the health and safety of the public, the State can tell you that you must allow employees to have their personal firearms locked in their vehicles, on your property, whether or not you like it.
When it comes to business, property rights take a back seat to the powers of the government to regulate commerce, since before the beginning of this Republic.