|
|
Article: Judicial decisions. (merits of court cases on employee termination and premises liability)(Legal Reporter)
- Article from:
- Security Management
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 American Society for Industrial Security. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Employee termination. An Illinois appeals court has disallowed arguments that an employee's discharge was a negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
L. June Brackett was employed for forty-four years by the Galesburg Clinic Association in Galesburg, Illinois, most recently as its chief executive officer. At a meeting of the executive board, the clinic's doctors signed a letter terminating Brackett's employment. In her court papers, she alleged that she was escorted off the premises without a chance to collect her belongings, although later other employees delivered some, but not all, of them to her home.
Court documents indicate that the ...