Taylor v. National Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that employee could not establish promissory estoppel because “[t]he elimination of the job . . . was an independent event unconnected to the promise”
• adopting rule that attempting to second-guess work force shifts is an inappropriate interference in managerial decisions
• finding personnel manual provisions inconsistent with at-will relationship may be used as evidence that employment contract requires good cause for termination despite fact that manual was not part of initial employment agreement
• personnel policy manual may create implied contract obligating employer to fire employees for cause only
• at-will status of an employment relationship is “one of prima facie construction,” not substantive law
• jury question whether there was implied contract allowing discharge only for good cause created by personnel policy manual, oral representations to employee, and ambiguous hiring letter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).