Court Opinion

ID: 9613439
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 04:16:54.560352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:03:28.868851
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MACY, Justice,
specially concurring.
I specially concur. In McDonald v. Mobil Coal Producing, Inc., 789 P.2d 866 (Wyo.1990), we stated that genuine issues of material fact existed as to the effect, if any, the representations made by Mobil in its handbook had upon an otherwise at-will employment relationship. The Court went on to state in McDonald that those issues were (1) whether Mobil should have expected McDonald’s reliance upon the procedures outlined in the handbook, (2) whether McDonald’s reliance was reasonable, and (3) whether Mobil’s termination procedures should have been enforced to avoid injustice.
The majority opinion in this case holds that there was an ambiguity in the employment handbook which presented a material question of fact as to whether Mobil intended to make legally binding promises concerning Mobil’s employment termination procedures. Even if the employment handbook was ambiguous, Mobil’s course of conduct clearly demonstrated that Mobil intended to make legally binding promises concerning Mobil’s employment termination procedures and that Mobil certainly led McDonald to rely upon the termination procedures outlined in the handbook.
It appears that the only question which should be resolved on remand is whether *992Mobil’s termination procedures should have been enforced to avoid an injustice; i.e., whether Mobil should have been estopped from firing McDonald without cause. See McDonald, 789 P.2d 866.