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Date Submitted: 11/09/2012 01:58 AM
The Broken Employment Contract?[1]
Arthur Wayne walked out of Sara Bell’s office shocked. It was hard for him to understand what had just inspired. Bell, Treasurer of EcoCare, a large healthy insurance company located in Michigan, had just told Wayne of the decision to terminate his employment and had requested his immediate resignation in return for a severance pay arrangement whereby he would continue to receive his salary for six months or until he found other employment. As he looked at the date on his watch calendar, May 7, Wayne realized that he had been hired exactly five years ago by Bell. Bell had told Wayne that EcoCare was not satisfied with his administration of the company car program and that, given the number of complaints about the program from the other employees, it was in the best interest of the company to ask for his immediate resignation. Wayne, assistant to the treasurer, had been in charge of the program for the past year. During a meeting the day before with both Bell and the vice president of operations, George Findlay, he had been unable to explain why there were so many complaints about the program. One such complaint had involved the claim that someone had set back the odometers on several company car while the vehicles were under Wayne’s control.
After his termination, Wayne requested that the decision to ask for his resignation be reviewed by the company president and the chairperson on the board of trustees of EcoCare. Wayne felt that he had wrongfully discharged and had been under the impression that he had a contract for continued employment as long as his performance was satisfactory. He further maintained that his supervisor had not properly followed the termination policies and procedures of EcoCare.
In preparation for the review, the president asked the director of human resources, Chris Miller, to investigate the facts of the situation and the events leading up to Wayne’s termination....