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The Michigan Supreme Court Expands Public Policy Causes of Action for Retaliatory Discharge

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Under Michigan’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (“MiOSHA”), employers may not “discharge an employee or in any manner discriminate against an employee because the employee filed a complaint” regarding the employer’s...more

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EntertainHR: Helping Haverford – What Parks and Recreation Teaches Us About Employee Terminations

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Parks and Recreation is a beloved mockumentary sitcom that focuses on the lives of several employees of the fictional Pawnee, Indiana’s Parks and Recreation Department. One of those characters is the sarcastic and...more

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California Employment News: Considerations for Employment Termination (Podcast)

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Considerations for Employment Termination Navigate California's at-will employment landscape, ensuring professionalism and legality in employee termination. Nikki Mahmoudi and Tomiwa Aina of Weintraub Tobin's Labor and...more

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California Employment News: Considerations for Employment Termination

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Considerations for Employment Termination Navigate California's at-will employment landscape, ensuring professionalism and legality in employee termination. Nikki Mahmoudi and Tomiwa Aina of Weintraub Tobin's Labor and...more

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Court Ruling Shows Misunderstandings about Employment At-Will & Legal Claims

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A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision regarding an employment at-will defense serves as a helpful reminder to employers and employees by illustrating misunderstandings amongst courts regarding the scope of the...more

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Common Misconceptions About Virginia Termination Laws

Navigating the intricate landscape of employment laws and regulations can be daunting, and Virginia’s termination laws are no exception. We often encounter clients with various misconceptions about the laws governing...more

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Terminations under Israeli Law

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Termination of employment in Israel can be for any good reason. But employers need to take care to follow the right procedure, and to be aware of local protections and culture....more

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New York City’s New Job Protection Bill: Will It End At-will Employment?

New York City is considering a bill known as the “Secure Jobs Act,” which would prohibit employers from discharging employees without “just cause” and advanced notice in most cases. Introduced on December 7, 2022, Int...more

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NYC Council Considering Proposal To Significantly Limit At-Will Employment and Electronic Monitoring of Employees

A proposed ordinance has been introduced before the New York City Council to generally prohibit private employers from terminating employees without “just cause” or a “bona fide economic reason.” If enacted, this proposal...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

ABCs of Employment Law: Employment at will

So misunderstood! NOTE FROM ROBIN: Earlier this year, I began a series of very basic explanations of the federal laws that govern the workplace. The first installment covered discrimination in general, and the second...more

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Conditioning Payment on Continued Employment: Texas Supreme Court Rules Company Owed Fired Executive Commissions

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Predictability and fairness are typical pillars of employment law. Where predictability allows both employers and workers to understand and navigate the rules and regulations that are applicable to them, fairness provides a...more

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Digital Walls Surrounding Speech on Social Media Crumble: NJ Appellate Division Upholds Employee Termination for Racist Facebook...

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On May 20, 2022, in McVey v AtlantiCare Medical System, the New Jersey Appellate Division Panel affirmed the dismissal of an employee’s case holding that her termination was not in violation of the protections afforded to...more

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Private Employer May Terminate Employee for Racially Insensitive Social Media Post

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Last week the New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit by an employee who alleged she had been wrongfully terminated based on her controversial Facebook post. In so doing, the court held that the...more

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Louisiana Employers May Be Able to Discharge Unvaccinated Workers Under Employment-at-Will Doctrine

In a pair of related rulings in Hayes v. University Health Shreveport, LLC, and Nelson v. Ochsner Lafayette General, the Supreme Court of Louisiana held on January 7, 2022, that private Louisiana employers may mandate...more

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That Terminating An Employee for Filing A Rebuttal to a Personnel Record Violates the...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 17, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court extended the public policy exception to at-will employment to the termination of an employee for filing a rebuttal to a personnel record. The...more

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Massachusetts SJC Finds a Public Policy Exception to Employment At Will Under the State Personnel Records Law

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Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) unanimously ruled that the state Personnel Records Law, M.G.L. c. 149, § 52C, provides for a public policy exception to employment at will. Writing on behalf of...more

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Massachusetts High Court Adds Teeth to Personnel Records Law With At-Will Employment Exception

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On December 17, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that a termination of employment based only upon an employee’s rebuttal to a negative performance review in the employee’s personnel file violates the...more

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S.C. Supreme Court Finds False Reports Resulting in Termination of At-Will Employee Can Result in Legal Liability

In a decision this month, the South Carolina Supreme Court held that a third party’s intentional interference with an at-will employee can give rise to a cause of action by a former employee for tortious interference with...more

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Houston Methodist Hospital Loses 153 Employees Over Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

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Approximately ten days after the first federal court decision in the country about mandatory-COVID-19 vaccinations by an employer, Bridges v. Houston Methodist Hospital (the “Hospital”), 153 of the Hospital’s employees were...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

The Insidious Deception That Is "Employment At Will"

Employers, don't get played. "This is an employment-at-will state, and I can fire you for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all." Oh, yeah?... ...more

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An End to At-Will Employment in Illinois? Newly Introduced Legislation Seeks to do Just That

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On February 19th and 26th, 2021, Illinois legislatures introduced new bills that, if passed, would get rid of at-will employment, only allowing employers to terminate employees for just-cause, and require...more

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NYC City Council Passes "Just Cause" and Other Restrictions Covering Employers in Fast Food Industry

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On Friday, December 17, 2020, the NYC Council passed two bills that will end “at-will” employment for fast-food workers in New York City.  The bills will take effect 180 days following Mayor de Blasio’s expected signing of...more

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At-Will No More: NYC Council Passes Just-Cause Termination and Progressive Discipline Requirements for Fast-Food Employers

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The NYC Council has passed two bills that will end traditional at-will employment for fast-food employers in New York City.  The bills were sent to Mayor Bill de Blasio for signature on December 17, 2020 and will take effect...more

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New York City Bills Seek to Eliminate At-Will Employment in the Fast Food Industry

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On Tuesday, December 15, 2020, the New York City Council’s Committee on Civil Service and Labor voted to approve two bills, Proposed Int. No. 1415-A and Proposed Int. No. 1396-A, that would fundamentally alter the...more

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International Challenges to Dismissing Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Outside of the United States, terminating employees can be difficult even in “normal” times. The concept of “at-will” employment is uniquely American, and generally, employers in non-US jurisdictions only may terminate...more

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