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NORK v. FETTER PRINTING CO.

Nos. 86-CA-598-MR, 86-CA-661-MR, 86-CA-785-MR.

738 S.W.2d 824 (1987)

Chester E. NORK, Appellant, v. FETTER PRINTING COMPANY, Appellee. Patricia Lynn SCHEURICH, Appellant, v. CROSS MOTORS CORPORATION, Wayne Cardwell, Joe Cross, Jr., and Joe Cross, Sr., Appellees. Betty BAKER, Appellant, v. Robert SLACK and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied August 14, 1987.

Discretionary Review Denied by Supreme Court November 17, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. David Shearer, Jr., John Allen Taylor, Louisville, for appellant, Chester E. Nork.

Robert G. Breetz, Brooks D. Kubik, Stites & Harbison, Louisville, for appellee, Fetter Printing Co.

Oliver H. Barber, Jr., Thomas J. Banaszynski, Louisville, for appellant, Patricia Lynn Scheurich.

Raymond M. Clooney, Thomas R. Kelley, Jr., William P. Hurley, Jr., Louisville, for appellees, Cross Motors Corp., Wayne Cardwell, Joe Cross, Jr., and Joe Cross, Sr.

J. Quentin Wesley, Wesley, Simpson and Hooks, Morganfield, for appellant, Betty Baker.

Ralph W. Wible, Holbrook, Gary, Wible & Sullivan, Owensboro, Ronald Williams, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, for appellees, Robert Slack and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Before COMBS, COOPER and HAYES, JJ.

COMBS, Judge.

These cases were appealed simultaneously and present common material facts and issues relating to actions for wrongful discharge from employment. The recent spate of these actions and their subsequent appeals makes it obvious that those concerned are in a quandary about when employment is "at will," what effect, if any, employee manuals or handbooks have upon the status of the employment, and when and in what fashion an employee may be discharged.

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