Large v. Acme Engineering & Manufacturing Corp.

Today, the majority has held that summary judgment was properly granted in Large’s constructive discharge claim. In so deciding, it has ruled, in effect, that an employer may take any retaliatory action it wishes against an employee who has filed a worker’s compensation claim so long as the employer stops short of firing the employee outright. I must dissent for two reasons: 1) the motion to dismiss was improperly granted because there are material questions of fact left undecided by the trial court; and 2) the opinion does not address the trial court’s finding that the employee’s' claim for…