Mullineaux v. Salem Technical Services, Inc.

By JUDGE THOMAS A. FORTKORT

The demurrers of Salem Technical Services, Inc., and Aiken Advanced Systems, Inc., and Frank B. Martin, defendants to the amended motion for judgment, are denied. Virginia still adheres to the "employment at will" doctrine most recently reexamined by the Virginia Supreme Court in Justice Russell’s opinion in Miller v. SEVAMP, Inc., 234 Va. 462, 362 S.E.2d 915 (1987).

Virginia currently has no opinions on the doctrine of promissory estoppel in employment contracts, although the doctrine itself has been commented upon. See, for example, Footnote 2, Dial v. Deskins, 221…