Barron v. Labor Finders of SC

How courts have described this case

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• holding a claim for wrongful termination in violation of public policy is not available where the employee has an existing statutory remedy
• holding a claim for wrongful termination in violation of public policy is not available where the employee has an existing statutory remedy
• stating at-will employee may not be discharged in violation of a clear mandate of public policy
• stating the determination of what constitutes public policy for purposes of the public policy exception to the at-will employment doctrine is a question of law for the courts to decide
• stating “[a]n at-will employee has a cause of action in tort for wrongful termination where there is a retaliatory termination of the at-will employee in violation of a clear mandate of public policy” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The [Wage Payment] Act does not, however, provide a statutory remedy whereby an employee may recover damages for wrongful termination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).