A company can fire its employees and offer them their jobs back as independent contractors under the condition that they relinquish any claim they may have had against the company, including discrimination claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled.
The opinion issued Feb. 13 was the second time that the appeals court had weighed in on the case, having vacated the initial rulings from the district court in 2009 and remanded the case with the specification that it should be reassigned to a new trial court judge.
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