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· 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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