Court Opinion

ID: 9776025
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:16:50.694497+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:32.858600
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Webb Hubbell, Chief Justice, concurring. I concur in the result reached by the majority, but I am concerned that we are further opening the floodgates of employment litigation. In Jackson v. Kinark, 282 Ark. 548, 669 S.W.2d 898 (1984), we seem to indicate that an employee handbook may give rise to an employment contract for an indefinite term. The majority now seems to accept appellant’s argument that the employment application which said that the employee will be on probation for the first three months creates an employment contract after three months which would require the employer to discharge the employee only for cause. I do not believe that we should even hint that an application, like the one in this case, establishes a duty on the employer not to discharge without cause. Hickman, J., joins in this concurrence.