I meant to mention this earlier in the item about Sexual Harassment. I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else but it sure strikes me that a few of these firings — people losing their jobs over something they said or did that was deemed "inappropriate" — are cases where the company was looking for an excuse to terminate or break a contract.
I'm not talking about the ones where someone committed rape or anything approaching it. But there are some involving physical contact that doesn't seem to be so wrong as to warrant ouster and some that are merely imprudent (as opposed to threatening) speech. In those cases, I wonder if the employer isn't seizing on an opportunity to get rid of someone they were already thinking of getting rid of. You could probably get some people to settle out their contracts for a lot less money if you did it that way. Just a thought.