A South Carolina worker who claims he was fired for asking whether his company had shortchanged him out of a bonus he was due can sue his former employer for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy, a federal judge ...

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Richland County has agreed to pay a former county administrator a $1 million settlement to protect the government and its councilmembers from wrongful termination lawsuits. Richland County Council voted 5-4 to the settlement after a 4-hour, closed-door session May 14, ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A former employee of a South Carolina chiropractor says he sexually assaulted her and tried to convert her to Scientology. A lawsuit filed in state court accuses Joseph Ben Barton of unlawfully firing the woman, identified as “Jane Doe,” ...

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The Town of Surfside Beach fired its building official in violation of public policy when it terminated her for issuing a stop-work order to a local restaurant, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Aug. 26. The court affirmed a ...

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Gray v. American HomePatient, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-040-15, 9 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:14-cv-01207; D.S.C. Holding: The public policy exception to the employment-at-will doctrine does not extend to situations where the employee has an existing statutory remedy for wrongful ...

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The police chief of the Dillon County town of Latta has been fired and she says it is because she is gay.

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The officer who was fired from Pickens police after ticketing Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney has dropped his wrongful-termination lawsuit against the city.

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Hand v. SunTrust Bank, Inc. Plaintiff was fired from her job as assistant branch manager for servicing the business account of a company for which she performed part-time work. Plaintiff alleges her supervisors at the defendant-bank engaged in negligent misrepresentation when they directed her to service the account.

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Ragin v. Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. of GA Contrary to defendants’ argument, Yost v. City of Charleston (D.S.C. Nov. 24, 2009) does not stand for the proposition that a plaintiff may not sue co-workers for a defamatory statement made in connection with the plaintiff’s termination if the statements were made within the course and scope of their employment.

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Baxley v. SB Mulch, Inc. Even though defendants claim plaintiff worked for a corporation not named in this lawsuit, plaintiff alleges that he worked for the individual defendants, who own the corporate defendants, that he . . .

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