Campbell v. Husky Hogs, L.L.C.

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• recognizing retaliatory-discharge claim when an employee is terminated for filing a wage claim under the Kansas Wage Payment Act
• finding a common-law retaliatory discharge claim when an employer fires a worker who seeks to exercise his Kansas Wage Payment Act rights by filing a wage claim
• reversing district court’s sua sponte holding that remedies available for violating Kansas Wage Payment Act [KWPA] provided adequate alternative remedy for plaintiff s common-law retaliatory discharge claim
• finding a retaliatory-discharge claim “necessary [to carry out public policy] when an employer fires a worker who seeks to exercise [Kansas Wage Payment Act] rights by filing a wage claim” [emphasis added]
• \This court has previously criticized the allocation of a common-law action to an administrative agency;\ issue whether Act's remedies adequate to preclude remedies available under common-law tort of retaliatory discharge
• \The case law makes it obvious that Kansas courts permit the common-law tort of retaliatory discharge as a limited exception to the at-will employment doctrine when it is necessary to protect a strongly held state public policy from being undermined.\

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