Workplace safety involves regulations designed to protect working conditions and eliminate personal injuries and illnesses from occurring in the workplace. Workplace safety regulations/laws consist primarily of...
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Workplace Safety: An Overview
wrongful constructive discharge
Wrongful constructive discharge is a form of wrongful termination where, instead of directly firing the employee, the employer creates working conditions so intolerable that the employee is effectively forced to resign. This resignation is...
wrongful discharge
See wrongful termination.
[Last updated in July of 2024 by the Wex Definitions Team]
wrongful termination
Wrongful termination is a terminated employee's claim that the firing breached an employment contract or some public law.
Where an employment contract requires termination only for cause, a terminated employee can sue for arbitrary discharge....
wrongful termination in violation of public policy
An action for wrongful termination (or discharge) in violation of public policy gives a terminated employee the right to action against their former employer for wrongful termination. Although employment relationships are generally at will,...
yellow dog contract
A yellow dog contract is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees not to join or remain a member of a labor union as a condition of employment. Historically, these contracts were used in the early 20th...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer (1952)
Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer, 342 U.S. 579 (1952) was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court had to decide on the applicability of the President's national security powers on seizing private property. President Truman had ordered the...