Jackson v. Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that an employer did not intend to be bound by terms set out in a written employee manual in part because the employer retained the right to modify the terms
• assessing “all the circumstances” and the “relation of the parties” to determine whether an “implied contract based on the personnel manual’s terms existed”
• reciting factors bearing on question of whether personnel handbook can be construed to embody contractually binding commitments by employer
• affirming summary judgment for employer on ground that personnel policy was not contractually binding
• finding employment at-will despite written two-stage grievance procedure in personnel manual
• “on proper proof, a personnel manual can be shown to form the basis of an express or an implied contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).