Leikvold v. Valley View Community Hospital

OPINION

MEYERSON, Judge.

This appeal involves the rapidly changing area of employment law. We are asked to hold that in a contract of employment, indefinite as to its duration, the employee may nevertheless prove that the employer’s personnel manual constitutes the terms and conditions of employment. The parties did not have a formal employment contract limiting the circumstances under which the employee could be discharged. For the reasons hereinafter stated, however, the employee is not foreclosed from proving that she could only be discharged for cause in accordance with the personnel…