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· 4/18/1997

Rose v. Tipton County Public Works Department

Citations

  • 953 S.W.2d 690
  • 12 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 1364
  • 1997 Tenn. App. LEXIS 264
  • 1997 WL 188803

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • providing that an employer may not be bound by terms in its employee handbook unless the handbook contains language asserting contractual intent
  • making a similar conclusion with respect to a manual which was to. serve as a “guide”
  • manual which referred to “established rules” was not held binding because manual also indicated that rules only served as a “guide”
  • where the handbook contained a provision directly stating “that its policies are subject to change without notice by [the employer]”
  • employee handbook not a contract unless it contains specific guarantees or binding language

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Judges: Farmer, Crawford, Lillard

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