...Ratapol Teratanavat; Brian H. Kleiner Every year a number of employees are dismissed in American companies. Several names have been used to call these circumstances such as dismissal, separation, termination, discharge, firing, or layoff (Paula, 1985). Most people use these words interchangeably...

... terminations is that throughout the 1990 s, more employees may have been laid off as opposed to fired to prevent from possible liability due to wrongfully dismissing employees on the basis of race and sex (Koretz, 2000). This shows the complexity and confusion there is regarding wrongful termination...