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Employee can’t rely on promise to return to at-will position

Employee can’t rely on promise to return to at-will position

Employee can’t rely on promise to return to at-will position

An employee who was allegedly promised that she could return to her administrative position after helping her employer relocate a patient call center cannot claim detrimental reliance on the promise when she was terminated without being offered her old job back, a federal District Court in Massachusetts has ruled. The doctrine of detrimental reliance does not apply when the employment situation is an at-will position, it said. The claim arose when an administrative director of primary care practices at Boston Medical Center lost her job after temporarily accepting work on a project to relocate a patient call center for the hospital from Florida to Boston. Following relocation of the center...

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