Tennessee Recruiting and Hiring Sections Updated to Include Interference With Employment

Author: Michael C. Jacobson and Melissa A. Silver, XpertHR Legal Editors

The Tennessee Employment At-Will and Terms of Employment sections now include a discussion of Davis v. Shaw Indus. Group, +2013 Tenn. App. LEXIS 252 (Tenn. Ct. App. April 12, 2013), in which a Tennessee court held that at-will employees may bring claims for interference with their employment against individual corporate employees or officers. In these types of cases, employees will need to prove that the corporate employee or officer wrongfully induced the employee's termination or wrongfully interfered with his or her employment.

However, the court held that a corporate employee or officer cannot be held liable for interfering with an at-will employment relationship if he or she acted for a legitimate corporate interest, such as by reporting a violation of a company's anti-fraternization policy.

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