Sharon AMOS, Kathy Hall and Earline Marshall
v.
OAKDALE KNITTING COMPANY and Walter Mooney, III.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 8, 1992.
May 8, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy by Harvey L. Kennedy and Harold L. Kennedy, III, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff-appellants.
Allman Spry Humphreys Leggett & Howington, P.A. by W. Thomas White, David C. Smith and W. Rickert Hinnant, Winston-Salem, for defendant-appellees.
J. Wilson Parker, Deborah Leonard Parker, Wake Forest University, School of Law, Wake Forest, J. Michael McGuinness, Lisa A. Parlagreco, Gayle C. Wintjen and McGuiness S. Parlagreco, Boston, Mass., for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.
Elliot, Pishko, Gelbin & Morgan by Robert M. Elliot, Winston-Salem, for North Carolina Civ. Liberties Union Legal Foundation, amici curiae.
Pamela R. DiStefano and Maureen A. Sweeney, Raleigh, for Farmworkers Legal Services of North Carolina, amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
FRYE, Justice.
For the first time since our decision in Coman v. Thomas Manufacturing Co.,325 N.C. 172, 381 S.E.2d 445 (1989), we examine the contours of the public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine. Three issues are presented: (1) does firing an employee for refusing to work for less than the statutory minimum wage violate the public policy of North Carolina? (2) does the...
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