Perhaps because I have been the longtime author of a textbook on employment rights in Pennsylvania, or maybe just because there are a lot of people out there with questions, I probably receive more telephone calls about the difficulty employees face than any other type of legal issue. Most of these telephone calls are by people surprised that they could be fired for virtually any reason so long as there is not a statutory violation, such as discrimination based upon race, color, creed, gender and other specifically enumerated categories.
One issue that is repeated frequently is the question of whistleblower protection for honorable employees who have developed a conscience about nefarious goings on at their places of employment. Whistleblower protection must be statutory or by specific case law.
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