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I think a lot of it pertains to state by state laws, as well. Here, I can fire someone for looking at me wrong, and the employee has no recourse.

Case in point, I used to be manager of a local office that was a branch of a nationwide company. I fired one of my employees one day, on the spot, because she was using the company computer to search Monster.com job listings. Our corporate HR dept nearly fainted. Apparently in other states I would have had to given a verbal warning, then a written warning and could only fire on the 3rd offense. All because it was an offense not specifically covered in the employee manual as being grounds for immediate termination. HR actually wrote me up for firing her without giving the three strikes warning.

In part, that may be what that lawyer is referring to. Some states actually have labor boards that care about employees and go to bat for them. Colorado isn't one of them.