Skelly v. Visiting Nurse Ass'n of the Capital Region, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, J.
Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Spain, J.), entered April 15, 1994 in Rensselaer County, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the amended complaint.
Absent an agreement establishing a fixed duration, an employment relationship is presumed to be a hiring at will, terminable at any time by either party (Sabetay v Sterling Drug, 69 NY2d 329, 333; Martin v New York Life Ins. Co., 148 NY 117, 121). An exception to this general rule was carved out by Weiner v McGraw-Hill, Inc. (57 NY2d 458), which recognized that the presumption of at-will employment can be…
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