I have grown increasingly aware of the lack of support for employers. In Texas (and other states it too seems), all "benefit of the doubt" is provided to employees. I believe that the state boards (Texas Workforce Commission in Texas) puts all the burden on the employer. I will stipulate that in many, many cases, the employee is the person who gets a raw end of a deal during termination cases, and the company who employed them should be required to make amends.

However, I have been involved with a couple of cases recently whereby the employee is the one in the wrong and the employer comes up short with protection from the government. It appears that when an employee short-changes their employer, the only resolution available to that company is to terminate that employee. Even if, for example, the employee swindled the company out of time, money, and hard work invested in their business.

I believe that the state workforce commission or state employment commissions should provide more recourse to employers who have stood for what is right and can prove beyond a shadow of doubt that their former employee had done the business an injustice.

In the case of large corporations, an employee deliberately tampering with business operations may not hurt too badly. Microsoft makes millions each day, and one employee probably can't mess up too much. However, there are many small businesses out there that only have a handful of employees. These are the businesses that the employment commissions should seek to protect or offer more options to. After all, small businesses make up roughly 85% - 90% of all businesses in the country. We are the driving force behind today's economy.

Shouldn't the small business have more rights?

- Will Belden