An employment for a specified term may be terminated at any time by the employer in case of any willful breach of duty by the employee in the course of his employment, or in case of his habitual neglect of his duty or continued incapacity to perform it.
Cal. Lab. Code § 2924
Termination of Employment
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case 116 Cal. App. 3d 311 - Pugh v. See's Candies, Inc. (1981)
Most recently applied in David Shoemaker v. County of Glenn (August 2012)
Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1607.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.