Nork v. Fetter Printing Co.

COMBS, Judge.

These cases were appealed simultaneously and present common material facts and issues relating to actions for wrongful discharge from employment. The recent spate of these actions and their subsequent appeals makes it obvious that those concerned are in a quandary about when employment is “at will,” what effect, if any, employee manuals or handbooks have upon the status of the employment, and when and in what fashion an employee may be discharged.

We will first establish the sequence of events in each case so that their common pattern may be seen. The terminated employee’s…