What actions constitute a wrongful termination?
These days, workplace dynamics can see much job change. Employers terminate employees for all kinds of reasons. However, not all job terminations are legal. Some wrongful terminations violate principles of contract law, public policy or a statutory protected right. The first thing we ask for when we meet with you is whether you had any written contract with your employer. That is a critical document for our office to review because that will help determine whether your employment was, “at-will” a legal term for a work place arrangement in which in the legal sense means that the either party, the employer or employee, can terminate the workplace arrangement at any time. Generally speaking, in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, in the absence of a written contract to the contrary, the employee will be deemed to be “at will.” We also may want to review any employee handbook, memos, emails, anything at all which may lead a reasonable employee to believe that he or she is not “at will.” Further
