CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 2513
Business Judgment for “At-Will” Employment
In California, employment is presumed to be “at will.” This means that
an employer may [discharge/[other adverse action]] an employee for no
reason, or for a good, bad, mistaken, unwise, or even unfair reason, as
long as its action is not for a [discriminatory/retaliatory] reason.
New December 2013; Revised May 2024
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
b79281a09f7d37fae24dc1c414db639d7ae5f67b4f1f015b502ce224022025b8
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.