Insignia Residential Corp. v. Ashton

WILNER, Judge.

In Adler v. American Standard Corp., 291 Md. 31, 35, 432 A.2d 464, 467 (1981), we confirmed the long-standing common law rule that “an employment contract of indefinite duration, that is, at will, can be legally terminated at the pleasure of either party at any time.” We also held, however, that that common law rule is subject to modification both by statute and by judicial decision, and we recognized in Adler that a cause of action in tort may lie for the “abusive discharge” of an at-will employee “when the motivation for the discharge contravenes some clear mandate of public…