Green v. Ralee Engineering Co.

*71Opinion

CHIN, J.

May administrative regulations be a source of fundamental public policy that limits an employer’s right to discharge an otherwise at-will employee? Although our Legislature has determined that an emplovment contract is generally terminable at either-party’s will (Lab. Code, § 2922),1 we have created a narrow exception to this ..rule, by-recognizing that an employer’s right to discharge an at-will employee is subject to limits that fundamental public policy imposes. (Tameny v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (1980) 27 Cal.3d 167, 172 [164 Cal.Rptr. 839, 610 P.2d 1330, 9 A.L.R.4th 314]…