BLAW 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quasi-Contract, Subrogation
28 Nov 2017
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Employee can be fired for any reason or no reason, and without advance notice and. Corollary: an employee can quit without reason and without advance notice. The alternative to employment at will, is requiring terminations to be for cause . Employers with 100 or more employees must give 60 days notice of plant closing and mass layoffs. Implied contract is not verbal nor written agreement but an understood contract. May sue for wrongful termination for well established public policy. Applies to employees of public traded companies. Prohibits the discharge of an employee because of any lawful act done by the employee. Specifically includes information to a federal regulatory body or a law enforcement agency. Report made to a person with supervisory authority. Child labor: 14,15; non hazardous, during non-school hours; 16; non hazardous, unlimited hours; 18; no limit. Overtime: no limit to total numbers of hours/week.
