Gladden v. Arkansas Children's Hospital

Steele Hays, Justice.

These cases, Gladden v. Arkansas Children’s Hospital, et al., and Samples v. Saline Memorial Hospital are certified to us by the Court of Appeals under Rule 29(4)(b) and are consolidated for purposes of appeal. We are again asked to modify the employment at will doctrine. Neither case squarely presents the issue which we said in Gauldin v. Emerson Electric Co., 284 Ark. 149, 680 S.W.2d 92 (1984) and Jackson v. Kinark Corp., 282 Ark. 548, 669 S.W.2d 898 (1984) we would reexamine in light of current law, because in neither case was the employment for a definite term nor was…