holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing applied to employment contracts
How later courts described this case
- holding that the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing applied to employment contracts
- “an employer needs flexibility in the face of changing circumstances” (internal quotation marks omitted)
- employee handbook distributed after the employee commenced employment did not become contractually binding
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
JUSTICE WEBER
specially concurs:
I concur with the holding of the foregoing majority opinion in all respects. In addition, I would point out that in the course of further proceedings the employee handbook would be properly admissible as evidence to be considered in determining whether the respondent had breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing owing to the appellant.