An employment having no specified term may be terminated at the will of either party on notice to the other, unless otherwise provided by statute.
S.D. Codified Laws § 60-4-4
Termination at will
Applied in 38 court decisions — leading case Gruhlke v. Sioux Empire Federal Credit Union, Inc. (2008)
Most recently applied in Matta v. Dakota Provisions (December 2024)
Source: CivC 1877, § 1152; CL 1887, § 3775; RCivC 1903, § 1471; RC 1919, § 1095; SDC 1939, § 17.0401.
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: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.