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Wrongful Termination
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Family Law Prof Blog
Employee alleges hospital violated family leave law
By Family Law
From The Pennsylvania Record:An employee is suing a York hospital, alleging violation of the Family and Medical Leave Act and wrongful termination.Christine M. Buckley filed a lawsuit Jan. 25 in…
ContractsProf Blog
Wrongful Termination of Law Professors
Our colleagues at The Faculty Lounge wrote an interesting blog post about the alleged wrongful termination of half of Charlotte Law School's faculty after the recent demise of that particular…
The Faculty Lounge
How Charlotte Law Wrongfully Terminated Half Its Faculty
I have previously written about how Charlotte School of Law recently declared a financial emergency and implemented a “Reduction in Force” or RIF, firing about half the faculty with less…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Satisfying the Clarity Element of a Wrongful Termination Claim. McGowan v. Medpace.
Update: on April 12, 2017, the Court dismissed this case as improvidently accepted. Read the analysis of the oral argument here. On February 8, 2017, the Supreme Court of Ohio will…
California Employment Law Update
Employee’s Wrongful Termination Claim Was Properly Dismissed, But Other Claims Survive
By Tony Oncidi
Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC, 5 Cal. App. 5th 154 (2016) In her fifth amended complaint, Sharmalene Goonewardene alleged claims against her former employer (ADP) for wrongful termination, violation of the…
California Employment Law Update
Employee Could Proceed With Disability Discrimination And Wrongful Termination Claims
By Tony Oncidi
Soria v. Univision Radio Los Angeles, Inc., 5 Cal. App. 5th 570 (2016) Sofia Soria worked as an on-air radio personality for Univision for approximately 14 years before her employment…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Army Veteran Fired When Wife Goes into Labor
Lamar Austin spent six months in Iraq in 2006 as an Ammunition Specialist. At the end of 2016, the Army veteran was working for Salerno Protective Services in Concord, New…
Global Workplace Insider
Failure to Mitigate in Ontario
Aylsworth v Law Office of Harvey Storm, 2016 ONSC 3938 is an interesting case that further defines the boundaries of what type of job employees can reasonably reject without failing…
California Employment Law Update
Supervisor’s Wrongful Termination Claim Was Not Preempted By The NLRA
By Tony Oncidi
Dang v. Maruichi Am. Corp., 207 Cal. Rptr. 3d 658 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016) Khanh Dang sued his former employer for wrongful termination in violation of public policy, claiming that…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Why Bother with Employment Contracts?
By Lisa Stam
I had a client recently ask why he would bother going through the cost and efforts of doing up an employment contract, if he was going to have to fight…