Continuing our series on SC Employee Handbook Cases:
Following the retroactivity decision in Toth, the SC Supreme Court next took up the case of Epps v. Clarendon County, a case with political overtones. The employee in Epps claimed alternatively that he was fired in violation of his employee handbook-cum - contract, and that he was fired […]

Continuing our series examining the development in South Carolina of the employee handbook case law, we turn to a case captioned Toth v. Square D Co., a 1989 SC Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court was referred the question of whether the Smalls holding would be extended to employees’ claims of wrongful termination […]

Last week, we kicked off our series on Employee Handbook Cases in South Carolina with this post. Today, I’d like to continue the discussion with a look at how the cause of action based on employee handbooks got started.
First, some background: We discussed in the last post the concept of “employment at will” - which […]

This post is the first in a weekly series of posts regarding the state of the law in South Carolina concerning breach of contract employment actions based on the provisions contained in employment handbooks.
The South Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals have issued several opinions in this type of case over the last few […]