Asmus v. Pacific Bell

*19GEORGE, C. J.

—I respectfully dissent.

We granted the request of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to answer the following certified question of law: “Once an employer’s unilaterally adopted policy—which requires employees to be retained so long as a specified condition does not occur—has become a part of the employment contract, may the employer thereafter unilaterally rescind the policy, even though the specified condition has not occurred?” (Italics added.) The majority, however, inexplicably answers a different question— one in which it is assumed by the majority that…