Determination of term of employment; manner of termination of indefinite hiring
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Warren v. Crawford (1991)
Most recently applied in 275 F. Supp. 2d 1378 - Amick v. BM & KM, INC. (August 2003)
of Code section. — This section is derived from the decision in Magarahan v
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.
If a contract of employment provides that wages are payable at a stipulated period, the presumption shall arise that the hiring is for such period, provided that, if anything else in the contract indicates that the hiring was for a longer term, the mere reservation of wages for a lesser time will not control. An indefinite hiring may be terminated at will by either party. (Civil Code 1895, § 2614; Civil Code 1910, § 3133; Code
1933, § 66-101.)
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