North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Even though plaintiff had worked past the term of his employment contract while negotiating another term contract, he was not an at-will employee. He cannot state a claim for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy based on defendant’s decision ...

Where a federal government employee’s depression resulted in repeated absences and tardiness from work, her employer’s refusal to offer her a permanent position did not constitute unlawful discrimination or retaliation. Background In March 2011, the Office of the Director of ...

Unlike the mandatory nature of the state retirement system, state employees need not take advantage of health care insurance benefits, and – also unlike pensions – the level of retirement health care benefits is not dependent upon an employee’s position, ...

  Where the defendant-hospital had not breached the parties’ employment agreement when it demanded that the plaintiff-oncologist follow certain guidelines – rather than exercising his professional judgment, as the contract gave him the right to do – the hospital’s termination ...

A woman who alleged male employees circulated a rumor that she had a sexual relationship with a higher-ranking manager in order to obtain her position adequately stated a claim for discrimination and a hostile work environment, given the historical stereotypes ...

  Disputed evidence on whether an employee who struggles with mobility could have performed her job without extensive travel, whether the employer lacked a reasonable belief she could engage in such travel and whether she was terminated because of her ...

A notice of resignation requirement as a condition precedent to post-termination compensation from an employer could be deemed waived if the employer accepted an employee’s untimely resignation and did not, despite ample opportunity, enforce the notice obligation. We grant in ...

Because an employer did not abandon its claim that a former employee breached his employment agreement by retaining company property after resignation, the district court erred in dismissing the claim. And because the employer took steps to maintain the secrecy ...

Labor & Employment  –  Public Employees – Termination – Insufficient Notice – Personal Misconduct & Job Performance – Social Worker When a social worker engaged in “supportive counseling” after a mother first accused her 12-year-old son of molesting her daughters ...

Plaintiff, a private medical practice, asserted claims of breach of contract and the duty of loyalty, tortious interference, fraud, and misappropriation of trade name against the defendants, who are plaintiff’s former office manager and nurse practitioner. Plaintiff alleged that defendants ...

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