Trombley v. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center

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• noting that handbook provisions committing employer to progressive discipline system are sufficient to support jury finding that employer may terminate employee only for cause
• noting that handbook provisions committing employer to progressive discipline system are sufficient to support jury finding that employer may terminate employee only for cause
• holding any error in exclusion of supervisory reports related to patient complaints was harmless where two of three complaints were ultimately admitted into evidence
• objection is not preserved for appeal where party-objected to failure to give his suggested charge but not to charge as given to jury
• issue of employment relationship properly submitted to jury where “handbook stated that ‘[a] formal progressive disciplinary procedure has been developed to ensure that employees are treated in a consistent and reasonable manner’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).