Labor/Employment
May 8, 2019
It’s time for California to enact ‘just cause’ legislation
We need legislation to supplant Labor Code Section 2922 with a “just cause” statute, similar to that in Montana and nearly all other industrialized nations.
William M. Crosby
Law Office of William M. CrosbyLabor & Employment
13522 Newport Ave Ste 201
Tustin , CA 92780
Phone: (714) 544-2493
Fax: (714) 544-2497
Email: wcrosby@williamcrosbylaw.com
Loyola Law School
That employment not of a specific term may be terminated "at-will" has been the statutory presumption throughout the United States since the adoption of the "Wood's Rule" in the late 19th century (articulated by Horace Gray Woods in "A Treatise on the Law of Master and Servant" in 1877). The enactment of employment "at-will" legislation marked a sharp contrast to "just cause" as the historic standard for termination. The British legal scholar William Blackstone noted ...
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