Question

Owen is an employee of Paving Inc., which is performing a contract for the federal government. Owen learns that Paving is overcharging for the work. If he publicly reports the fraud, the law may protect him from being fired from his job. With respect to the employment-at-will doctrine, this isA. an example of the doctrine.B. an exception based on contract theory.C. an exception based on public policy.D. an exception based on a statute.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is the option C: an exception based on public policy.

Explanation:

On one hand, ''at-will employment'' is the name given to the term that clarifies the situation, in labor law, where two parties are under contract and one of them, the employer, can normally dismissed from the other part, the employee, without any warning and for any reason. Moreover, it the law that encourage employers to contract freely without repercusions and employees to quit freely a job without repercusions as well too.

On the other hand, there are many exceptions to this law, in order to protect the rights of the parties. One kind of those exceptions is the public policy exception, which states that any employer can dismissed from his employee under the consideration that the termination would violate the state's public policy doctrine, for example such as performing an action that complies with public policy.