Newcorp Case Summary

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Individual Assignments: Legal Risk and Opportunity in Employment Legal Encounter 1: From the legal encounter 1, Newcorp was completely right to terminate Pat job at any time. Pat signed the employment and discharge document which gives the right to Newcorp to terminate employee at will. However, there is a wrongful discharge in legal encounter one because NewCorp acted in a discriminatory manner (Jennings 2006). In this legal encounter one NewCorp retaliated against Pat for exercising a right, which is supported by public policy. For example, Pat had criticized the distribution of school sports funds. He suggested that funds should be equally allocated among all student athletic programs, but not just be concentrated on the boy’s football and basketball programs. Although Pat was not identified as a NewCorp employee, he believed that this contributed not only to the unfriendliness of NewCorp senior management but also to the of NewCorp decision to discharge him. NewCorp’s senior management’s concern over his public display of his personal views as a basis for his termination judgment is erroneous.…show more content…
When Pat was hired she was given an employee personnel manual. The employee manual implies the existence of a contract. In addition, the Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance/ Corrective Action Plan stated that (“If the job performance of an employee is unsatisfactory, the employee will be notified of the deficiency and placed on a Corrective Action Plan. If the employee performance does not improve to a satisfactory level within the specified period of time, termination will follow”). That corrective action limits Newcorp freedom to fire Pat at will. It is clear that NewCorp did not follow specific disciplinary and termination policies that are in place. Therefore, a wrongful discharge suit (Jennings 2006) can be filed against

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