An article of mine has actually been read, hooray!
 
Thanks Marsha for the link.
 
Robert
 
Robert C. Bird
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University of Connecticut
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Bird on the Duty of Good Faith in the Employment Context


  <http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/29/rbird.jpg>  Robert C. Bird <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  (U. Conn. - Marketing) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Pace L. Rev.) An Employment Contract 'Instinct With an Obligation': Good Faith Costs and Contexts <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1033041> .  Here's an excerpt from the abstract:

	This article arises from a symposium sponsored by Pace University School of Law celebrating the ninetieth anniversary of the famous decision of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon .... 

	Three challenges exist to the orderly development of the good faith doctrine in employment law. First, the meaning of good faith remains far from certain. Courts have intermingled good faith with other employment doctrines thereby hindering its widespread acceptance. Second, the good faith covenant in employment lacks mutuality. Usually bilateral in the contractual context, the covenant remains an obligation that usually runs only from the employer to the employee. The questions of whether the covenant should obligate employees and what the consequences of such an obligation could be remain unaddressed. Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, there is a limited understanding of the costs of the good faith duty. The emerging empirical work studying the effects of wrongful discharge law, of which the duty of good faith is a part, reveals potential economic costs of this important doctrine articulated by Judge Cardozo ninety years ago.

Yes, indeed -- good faith in the employment context is clear as mud.  Good work, Robert!

rb 

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