holding that the county agency’s personnel manual, that established a grievance process was sufficient to constitute a unilateral contract of employment; failure to follow the manual’s procedures gave employee right to assert a breach-of-contract claim
How later courts described this case
- holding that the county agency’s personnel manual, that established a grievance process was sufficient to constitute a unilateral contract of employment; failure to follow the manual’s procedures gave employee right to assert a breach-of-contract claim
- stating that whether employee handbook was sufficiently definite to form an offer for a unilateral contract was a question of law
- “[0]n appeal, the ruling' on a question of law carries no presumption of correctness, and this Court’s review is de novo”
- "[O]n appeal, the ruling on a question of law carries no presumption of correctness, and this Court's review is de novo."
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
The majority relies heavily upon the decision in Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. v. Campbell , 512 So.2d 725 (Ala. 1987). I dissented in that case, and I do likewise here. *Page 1222