Willets v. Emhart Manufacturing Co.

How courts have described this case

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• corporate personnel policy on severance pay deemed to have become part of understood employment agreement
• sale of division resulted in involuntary termination despite fact plaintiffs accepted position with successor
• \All of them [the plaintiffs] lost their seniority rights with the defendant\
• “All of them [the plaintiffs] lost their seniority rights with the defendant”
• “There can be no question that the sale of its Mixim division by the defendant involved a permanent release of the plaintiffs. By that sale, the defendant made certain that it could no longer fulfill its part of the employment relationship.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).