Discharging an employee is one of the least pleasant tasks of running a business -- no small business owner wants to take away an employee's ability to earn a living. However, certain circumstances ...

Do you know what it means to be "wrongfully discharged" from employment? Do you know that there are many, many things employers can do to perhaps inadvertently expose themselves to a wrongful ...

"In contrast, here, the pretermination investigation was about Paddock testifying in response to a subpoena—the very action he argues constituted the performance of a public obligation. Therefore, if ...

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a probationary civil service employee who attempted to sue the state for wrongful discharge. The suit was brought by James Miracle, a former employee of ...

Those are words that no employee ever wants to hear and that employers’ hope they rarely have to utter. In a period of more-than-full employment such as we are currently in, with an unemployment rate ...

Wrongful termination occurs when an employee is fired in a manner that violates legal protections or employment agreements. This can include terminations based on discrimination, retaliation, breach ...

Wrongful termination happens when an employer fires an employee for an illegal reason. Although most terminated employees probably feel as though they were wrongfully let go, federal and state laws ...

The law of wrongful discharge in Pennsylvania changes slowly. The "extremely strong" presumption is that employees in the state are employed "at-will" and courts have consistently found that "an ...

In its first employment decision of 2019, the NH Supreme Court declined to recognize a claim for wrongful demotion under New Hampshire law. In Clark v. NH Department of Employment Security, Clark sued ...