· 8/1/2001
Amy Kohls v. Beverly Enterprises Wisconsin, Inc. D/B/A Maple Manor Healthcare
Citations
- 259 F.3d 799
- 2001 U.S. App. LEXIS 17120
- 80 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 40,625
- 2001 WL 864283
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that the court’s role in deciding whether employer could terminate at-will employee is not to tell employers how to discipline employees; rather, it is to ensure that the process is not discriminatory
- “An employer undoubtedly has the discretion to fire an at-will employee for mishandling and mismanaging funds or for poor performance, or both”
- “An employer un- doubtedly has the discretion to fire an at-will employee for mishandling and mismanaging funds or for poor performance, or both.”
- “an employee may be fired for poor performance when she would have been fired for such performance even absent her leave”
- “an employee may be fired for poor performance when she would have been fired for such performance even absent her leave”
- “The fact that the leave permitted the employer to discover the problems [cannot] logically be a bar to the employer’s ability to fire the deficient employee.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Bauer, Kanne, Rovner
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