Exam 2: Employment Contracts and Wrongful Discharge

An employee who makes complaints against his or her employer pertaining to fraud and corruption is protected under the provision of:

If a company provides its employees with a personnel handbook, and that handbook says that employees will be fired only for certain enumerated infractions of work rules, a worker may later argue that the manual formed a(n)________ with the firm.

Peter, an employee of Light Ware was terminated from his job without wages and benefits for a period of three months. This was in violation of META. Under META his claim is subject to:

An express contract is a contract in which:

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)forbids firing employees for engaging in protected concerted activities.

Adam was an employee of ABC Corporation and he discovered the management was hiring illegal immigrants in most of its factories. He raised objection against the employer's practices and provided information to the law enforcing agencies regarding the illegal activities. The employer retaliated against Adam by terminating his employment. In this scenario, Adam is protected under:

An employee who has not been hired for more than a year can be fired by the employer for any reason or for no reason. This is the doctrine of:

Some employees have express contracts of employment, usually for a definite duration. Others fall within the coverage of a(n)______ negotiated for them by their union.

Describe the Model Employment Termination Act.

A tort is:

What are the protections for corporate whistleblowers under law?

Following Geary v. U.S. Steel (PA Supreme, 1978), the majority of courts applying Geary have required the plaintiff-employee to point to some precise statutory right or duty before ruling the discharge wrongful.

A whistleblower is an employee who reports his or her employer's illegal activities to the appropriate governmental entity.

What does Title VII of the NRLA deal with?

Identify the case in which the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a salesman who was fired for refusing to sell what he insisted to management was an unsafe product?

The exception under the employment-at-will rule, where the employer cannot fire an employee from employment for exercising a legal right or fulfilling that legal duty created by a statute, is called:

The provision of Uniform Employment Termination Act deals with protection of employees from:

Employees of public companies are protected from retaliation for engaging in certain whistleblowing activities under:

In jurisdictions or circumstances in which no federal or state antiretaliation rule is implicated, the courts often have shown themselves willing to carve out a(n)________ to employment-at-will.

What is SOX?