Good Faith Belief = No Pretext
Michael Newman
May 5, 2008
A case recently decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, involving an employee who was discharged because of reports that he had been sleeping on the job, reinforces the idea that the relevant inquiry in such a case is not whether the stated basis for termination actually occurred, but whether the employer had a good faith belief that it had occurred.
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