MOORE v. WARR ACRES NURSING CENTER, LLC.

KAUGER, J.,;

1 1 We retained this cause to address the dispositive issue of whether terminating a licensed practical nurse for missing work in a nursing center based on vomiting on the job and a doctor's note admitting that he should not work for three days due to an infection with influenza would violate public policy.1 We hold that it would, The public policy behind precluding a nursing home employee from working while infected with influenza is manifested in the Oklahoma Constitution, the Oklahoma statutes, Oklahoma and Federal regulations and caselaw. To hold otherwise would exacerbate…