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VILLARIN v. RABBI SCHOOL

108417/09, 6220.

96 A.D.3d 1 (2012)

942 N.Y.S.2d 67

2012 NY Slip Op 2786

JOYCE VILLARIN, Respondent, v. THE RABBI HASKEL LOOKSTEIN SCHOOL, Also Known as THE RAMAZ SCHOOL, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided April 12, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City ( Bryan P. Kessler , Andrew J. Ceresney and Zahra Nahar-Brown of counsel), for appellant.

MAZZARELLI, J.P., and CATTERSON, J., concur with RENWICK, J.; FRIEDMAN and DEGRASSE, JJ., dissent in a separate opinion by DeGRASSE, J.

OPINION OF THE COURT

RENWICK, J.

In New York, pursuant to the well-established common-law doctrine of employment at will, an employee-employer relationship, in the absence of a contract and a stated duration, is presumed to be a hiring at-will. An at-will employment relationship may be freely terminated by either party for any reason or even no reason at all (Wieder v Skala, 80 N.Y.2d 628, 633 [1992]). In the 1980s...

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