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Originally Posted by Squawks
Those are at-will jobs.
Almost all Fortune 500 companies today are horrified of firing people and when they do, they make sure they have good reason(s) to do so. That's why most companies go with temporary/probation/recruiting positions first so that they can indeed 'fire at will'.
Excluding 'fire at will' positions there are more complexities thrown in. Labor unions, for example, lend a bit of protection and the number of employees in unions today is quite high.
Those reasons are also quite vague and can be exploited by our legal system today. Plaintiffs are winning huge piles of cash for being fired for silly reasons such as wearing smelly perfumes to work (true case).
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Most states (if not all) automatically consider all employees to be at-will.
large companies and corporations (including those that hire thru labor unions) take it a step further to ensure at-will employment contract is in writing to make sure wrongful termination lawsuits don't happen.