Business and Personal Law

Chapter 15: Employment Law

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Section 15.1

1. employment situations where parties to employment may end the relationship at any time without penalty
2. promissory estoppel, implied contract, public policy tort, and implied covenant
3. Union and management work out issues such as wages, conditions, and hiring and firing policies.

Section 15.2

1. health and safety; fair wages and benefits; privacy; equal opportunity in the workplace
2. refusal to accept a suitable job; unemployment due to labor strike; discharged for misconduct; voluntarily quitting a job without good cause
3. to prevent discrimination by strengthening the doctrine of disparate impact