There is no such thing as a Federal ﾑwrongful termination law' in the literal sense. There are however, certain Federal laws which if violated by employers while terminating an employee, can merit a ﾑwrongful termination' claim. The 1964 Civil Rights Act granted anti-discrimination rights to workers so that they could not be terminated for reasons which pertained to their gender, race, religion, skin color or national origin. Since then, amendments have been put in place to protect employees from types of age discrimination as well. Since most people are employed ﾑat will' their employer is able to terminate them for any reason as long as it does not violate one of these civil rights. In cases where employees are in contracted arrangements with their employers, there is most often an ﾑat will' clause written into the contract which causes them to be employed ﾑat will' as well. Therefore Wrongful termination claims are most often claims to a violation of the employees civil rights.