Some employment contracts don't give the employee the unilateral right to quit during the term. Some even expressly contemplate a contractual obligation not to quit.
Such structures and provisions raise a number of issues. Would a court really enforce a requirement to work? Like what would a damages dispute look? What are the PR implications for the employer? Maybe there are even 13th Amendment issues?
I have previously asserted that [soft SPOILERS for Robocop follow now] the greatest termination-of-employment scene in the history of movies is the final scene in Robocop. There, the subject matter related to a more directionally standard involuntary termination by the employer. Now, we have what may be near or at the top of the heap of quit scenes - or, at least, quit scenes that focus on governing contractual language.
Thus, in the remake of The Running Man, there's an exploration of the kinds of provisions one might see that govern a voluntary termination by the employee. To wit, see the following exchange:
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Josh Brolin's Dan Killian - You think you can just walk?
Colman Domingo's Bobby Thompson - Sweeties, please. . . . Look at my contract. Page 42, paragraph 6. There’s a special clause in the smallest of print that reads, f**k you.
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