At-Will Employment, Retaliation, Employer Liability Issues

At-Will Doctrine Still Applies to Disciplinary Action Following Employer Investigations

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 6/20/2025

Here is a common scenario faced by human resources professionals: An employee complains about unprofessional and bullying behavior by a coworker. After interviewing the two employees and other workers, the employer cannot...more

Employers Beware! Michigan Supreme Court Clarifies and Expands Public-Policy Exception to At-Will Employment Presumption

Bodman on 8/16/2022

On July 15, 2022, the Michigan Supreme Court clarified and, arguably, expanded the public-policy exception to the well-established at-will employment presumption in Michigan. Although the case may conclude differently after...more

Massachusetts Creates Exception to At-Will Employment for Employees Exercising the “Right of Rebuttal”

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 12/22/2021

On December 17, 2021, the highest state court in Massachusetts held that an employer may not terminate an employee solely for exercising his right to file a rebuttal to be included in his personnel file....more

The Insidious Deception That Is "Employment At Will"

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/28/2021

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

Contracts May Not Be All They're Cracked Up To Be: The Extension Of Legal Protections In Employee Contractual Settings

Fisher Phillips on 11/5/2015

For many years, employers have generally embraced a policy of utilizing at-will employment as often as possible, where employers and employees can end their relationship with each other at any time and for any (legal) reason....more

Another Exception to Employment At-Will

Sands Anderson PC on 3/4/2015

Virginia is known as a stalwart adherent to the doctrine of employment at-will. The courts in Virginia have long recognized that the employment relationship is for an indefinite term and may be terminated for any reason or...more

To the Woodshed: Self-Defense, Defense of Others and Retaliatory Discharge

Baker Donelson on 6/13/2014

The workplace can be very tumultuous. Employees working in close quarters inevitably have disagreements, and some employees prove themselves to be disagreeable troublemakers. Workplace bullying is considered by some to be...more

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