Court Opinion

ID: 9665228
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:43:01.010504+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:14.043479
License: Public Domain

LEVINE, Justice
(specially concurring).
I write specially to emphasize what this case is not about.
In their brief on appeal, Lewis and Bailey essentially ignored the disclaimer contained within the employee handbook. They argued instead, as the majority points out, that the handbook’s provisions on discipline entitled them to the benefit of those procedures set out in the handbook. This appeal then does not involve, and therefore obviously does not resolve, issues of ambiguity and reliance created by an employer’s disclaimer in an employee handbook that purports to “taketh” what the remainder of the handbook appears to “giveth,” and the effect of such ambiguity on the employer-employee relationship. No cases were brought to our attention on these issues and no arguments made on either side.