Corr Training Case Summary

I hope you have been well. Recently you have asked our firm to advise you on several matters that include Ms. Goode Twoshoes. You have sought answers to several problems which I will restate here to better assist you. First Ms. O’Brien you have asked whether or not Twoshoes has a viable claim for breach of contract against Corr Train including specifically whether or not the handbook provision modified the at-will nature of Twoshoes’ employment? As to this particular question from my view of the appropriate case law in this area of law, that no, Ms. Twoshoes does have a viable claim of breach of contract. Ms. Twoshoes’s breach of contract stems from the fact that the Corr Train handbook has in fact modified the at-will nature of Ms. Twoshoes’s employment contract. I will explain my reasoning for my opinion below. The general rule here in Nita is that an employer can terminate an employee for any reason because the state follows an at-will policy. However …show more content…
Spring industries. Simply stated Smalls was a less than impressive employee with a record of absences and injuries. Small was discharged after only one written warning although there was a handbook that the company distributed and it had a four step termination process. The employers at Springs orally assured the employees that the provisions in the handbook would be followed. Thus, the definitive support from the staff members that state the handbook is the set rules, was enough for the court to view that the handbook altered the at-will contact that Smalls had with Springs. Having either the oral assurances or binding language is not wholly dispositive of whether the company will be found as having altered the at-will contract. These are just factors that can make a plaintiff’s case stronger by the presence of more than one