If a Company Provides Its Employees with a Personnel Handbook

question 42

Multiple Choice

If a company provides its employees with a personnel handbook, and that handbook says that employees will be fired only for certain enumerated infractions of work rules, a worker may later argue that the manual formed a(n) ________ with the firm.

• A)implied contract.
• B)breached contract.
• C)express contract.
• D)None of these answers.

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