Case Study: Wrongful Termination

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Wrongful Discharge or Simply “Poor Performance?” Case: The employment at will principle is a unique and interesting concept for both employers and employees. This provision in every state except Montana provides both an employee and or an employer to get out of a bad situation without ever having to provide justification. The importance of this law makes it easy to terminate employment from both and employee and employer perspective. While we do not necessarily agree with employers terminating employment without providing an explanation, we are mindful that there are mitigating circumstances that might prevent reasons from being discussed. This is extremely important as it relates to competitive advantage and non public information. Another example is inappropriate or offensive behavior. Management does not want the names of those offended being released for fear of backlash, and or other employees attempting to torture or harass those individuals. From an employee perspective, it is often difficult to grasp being dismissed from a job without a reason being provided. Most of the time employees are left wondering what happened. Did I offend someone? Was it my job performance? As you can see employees want to know, and in most circumstances will take the reasons as feedback and carry it over to a new job. However, there are some employees that do not really care and will just move on to another firm. While Mr. LaRossa seems to have a very valid point, we have to be mindful of at will employment and what rights are given and or protected by the law. It is because of this that we see Mr. LaRossa legal claims being dismissed. However, we do take the view that there seems Majestic has some major issues with Mr. Carson and his behavior. The other major issue we have is that Mr. LaRossa was given some sort of indication that his employment would continue for the
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