July 2013

You probably know that North Carolina is an employment-at-will state.  That means that in the absence of any employment contract, you can be fired from your job at any time, for good reason, no reason at all, or even a bad reason.

There’s a skinny exception to that rule: that an employee cannot be terminated

It’s hard to conceive of a more unlikely Business Court case than Keister v. National Council of the Young Men’s Christian Assocation of the United States of America, a purported class action by YMCA members.  The Opinion, 2013 NCBC 36,  was issued late last week.

Keister and his family joined the YMCA in Asheville