Gayer v. Bath Iron Works Corp.

RUDMAN, Justice.

The plaintiffs are seventeen apprentice employees of Bath Iron Works Corporation, who were discharged several days before their apprenticeships were to begin, and the spouses of three of the employees. In an eight count complaint filed in the Superior Court they contend that BUY’S termination of the apprenticeship program constituted a breach of the apprentices’ employment contracts, misrepresentation, negligence, interference with advantageous business relationship, infliction of emotional distress on both the apprentices and their spouses, and loss of consortium. The…