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In law, wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer, where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision or rule in employment law.
Ashley Shepherd, a behavioral therapist, sued the Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center in Prestonsburg for wrongful termination in Floyd County Circuit Court, and was ultimately awarded $2.4 ...
In United States labor law, at-will employment is an employer's ability to dismiss an employee for any reason (that is, without having to establish "just cause" for termination), and without warning, [1] as long as the reason is not illegal (e.g. firing because of the employee's gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, or disability status).
There is no federal law against unjust discharge, and most states also have no law with full protection against wrongful termination of employment. [10] Collective agreements made by labor unions and some individual contracts require that people are only discharged for a "just cause".
Trump fired the head of the Office of the Special Counsel, which helps protect employees from wrongful termination, including reprisals against whistleblowers, and also enforces Hatch Act ...
A former Starbucks employee is suing the coffee chain, saying he was wrongly terminated after confronting robbers at his store. NBC St. Louis affiliate KSDK reports 20-year-old Michael Harris was ...
He argued this violated Texas state law public policy and sought damages for wrongful termination, mental anguish, including punitive damages. He sought to avoid a question of preemption of his claim by ERISA 1974 §514(a), [2] by not claiming lost pension benefits, or referring to pension plan details, and instead basing a claim solely upon ...
McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), is a US employment law case by the United States Supreme Court regarding the burdens and nature of proof in proving a Title VII case and the order in which plaintiffs and defendants present proof. It was the seminal case in the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework.
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