Wrongful discharge can be shown where an employee is wrongfully terminated in retaliation for threatening to report to state authorities instances of alleged patient mistreatment. In such cases:

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the employer may discharge an employee for fulfilling societal obligations.

the employee should be terminated for failing to protect the employer.

the employer may not discharge an employee for fulfilling societal obligations or in those instances in which the employer acts with a socially undesirable motive.

the employer is in compliance with the employment-at-will doctrine.