Grant v. Mount Vernon Mills, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the policy statement of Mount Vernon to be “fair and just” did not create enforceable contract
• “When the at-will status of an employee is altered by the terms of an employee handbook, however, a contract may arise allowing for a cause of action for wrongful discharge.”
• “[B]eeause nothing in the employee handbook outlined progressive disciplinary procedures in mandatory terms, the presumption that the employment was at-will was not rebutted and no disclaimer was needed. Accordingly, we hold the handbook did not contain promises enforceable in contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).