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Court won’t dismiss whistleblower claim based on handbook

Court won’t dismiss whistleblower claim based on handbook

Court won’t dismiss whistleblower claim based on handbook

Does an employee handbook that requires employees to report abuses of the organization’s property and commits to protect good faith whistleblowers protect an employee from termination under the public policy exception to at-will employment in Maryland? A federal District Court has refused to dismiss a complaint and allowed the former employee to proceed with discovery in an attempt to show that the handbook established a public policy sufficient to protect her against termination. Melinda Goode took a job as a meeting planner at American Veterans, Inc., the fourth largest veterans organization in the country. During her interviews she asked why three other planners had left the job in the...

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