Johnson v. National Beef Packing Co.

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• noting that an employee handbook was \only a unilateral expression of company policy and procedures\ and \no meeting of the minds was evidenced by the defendant's unilateral act of publishing company policy\
• employment manual, stating that employees could only be terminated for cause, did not establish either an express or implied contract
• no meeting of the minds is evidenced by the defendant’s unilateral act of publishing company policy.
• where no definite term of employment is expressed, the duration of employment depends on the intention of the parties as determined by the circumstances in each particular case
• under employment-at-will doctrine, “employee states no cause of action for breach of contract by alleging that he has been discharged”
• where no definite term of employment is expressed, the duration of employment depends on the intention of the parties as determined by the circumstances in each particular case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).