The Michigan Experience with Employment-At-Will

Authors

Jack Stieber, School of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Economics, Michigan State University
Mark D. Baines, Labor relations consultant, Lansing, MichiganFollow

Abstract

I. Introduction

II. Application of Wood's Rule in Michigan

III. Toussaint v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield

IV. Post-Toussaint Cases ... A. Status of At-Will Policy Statements ... B. Mental Distress Damages for Breach of Implied Contract ... C. Standards for Voluntary Arbitration ... D. Extension of Toussaint to Non-Discharge Cases

V. Public Policy Cases

VI. Statistical Summary of Cases

VII. Avoiding and Defending against Wrongful Discharge Suits

VIII. Limitations of Litigation

IX. Proposed Legislation

Recommended Citation

Jack Stieber and Mark D. Baines, The Michigan Experience with Employment-At-Will, 67 Neb. L. Rev. (1988)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol67/iss1/8