Shop Talk
Is it legal
Perhaps the advice is too late, but I'd avoid telling an employer about a job hunt unless a new job was secure or I was reasonably confident of getting a raise.
I mentioned that eventually i would be moving back to my home state. I had been looking for apartments and jobs in a different state and they started cutting my hours and eventually let me go because "I was looking for another job." I would have given an appropriate notice and never had the intention of screwing the company over.