Coleman v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• assuming that an adequate alternative remedy would preclude a common law cause of action for retaliatory discharge
• overrulingArmstrong v. Goldblatt Tool Co., 242 Kan. 164, 747 P.2d 119 [1987]; Smith v. United Technologies, 240 Kan. 562, 731 P.2d 871 [1987]; Cox v. United Technologies, 240 Kan. 95, 727 P.2d 456 [1986]
• allowing employer to discharge employee for being absent as the result of a work-related injury would allow employer to indirectly fire employee for filing workers' compensation claim, contrary to public policy of state
• absences caused by employee’s work-related injuries could not be counted against her for purposes of employer’s attendance policy
• employer prohibited from terminating employee because of absence caused by work-related injury and potential workers compensation claim
• employer may not discharge employee for excessive absences which are the consequence of a work-related injury; no workers compensation claim had yet been filed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).