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Wrongful Termination
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Alabama Employment Law Report
TENNESSEE JURY RETURNS $1.5 MILLION AWARD FOR WRONGFUL TERMINATION
Last January, I published an entry addressing the Crawford v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville decision issued by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court held that an employee who responded to questions…
Aaron Morris' Business Law Alert
Just How Badly Do You Need to Fire that Employee?
By Aaron Morris
Can you say, "appearance of impropriety"? On a regular basis, I get calls from companies that apparently found it essential to terminate an employee that had just announced she was…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
Coach Leach Amends his Petition
An employment relationship that went bad. It happens all the time from Burger King to any corporate boardroom. When it happens in Lubbock, Texas to a major college coach, it…
ContractsProf Blog
Conair to Plaintiff: Dude, Get a Gmail Account!
The Times of Trenton reports on a not very surprising decision of a New Jersey appellate court in Canella v. Conair Corp., upholding a trial court dismissal of a wrongful discharge…
Alabama Employment Law Report
RANDOM THOUGHTS ON EMPLOYMENT LAW ON A COLD FRIDAY MORNING
A number of issues continue to arise in the employment context. I expect you will be seeing more of these in 2010. They include the following: Overtime. A California court…
California Employment Law
COURTS DISAGREE ON PENALTY FOR COMPLAINING ABOUT SMELLY EMPLOYEE
The last post discussed the importance of training employees not to let prank callers talk them into strip searching co-workers. Today’s lesson is why, when interviewing people for supervisor positions,…
Employment Law Matters
Termination for poor performance discussed prior to FMLA leave does not support retaliation claim.
The Family and Medical Leave Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees who have taken leave under that Act. However, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed summary…
San Antonio Employment Law Blog
An Employer can Fire an Employee for the Wrong Reason
I used to get referrals from the San Antonio Bar Association. These referrals included many clients who had never spoken to a lawyer anywhere. Many of them would call complaining…
World of Employment
Oregon Supreme Court Denies Employee’s Wrongful Discharge Claim for Reporting Unlawful Trade Practices
The Oregon Supreme Court has denied a car salesman's wrongful discharge claim. In Lamson v. Crater Lake Motors, Inc., the salesman, Kevin Lamson, claimed he was terminated for complaining to his employer that…
Media Law Prof Blog
Judge Nixes Churchill Verdict, Refuses To Order Reinstatement
A Colorado judge has vacated the jury verdict in favor of former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, saying that the officials the professor had sued were "immune" from suit,…