Stevens Agis Case Analysis

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Yes, Under the common-law protections employment at will doctrine, Steven Agis worked as a delivery truck driver and was fired under unfair results which was a wrongful discharge.
Under the false statement the employer primarily motivated by ill will under defamation is liable.
The employer threatened all the employee’s with telling them they were all going to get fired in alphabetic order in which intentional infliction of emotional distress occurred because the employer threatened all the employee’s.

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