Case: Individual Employment Rights/Contracts (N.D. Ohio)

A principal of engineering/architectural firm SSOE, Inc. is entitled to summary judgment on his breach of contract claim, in which he asserts that he complied with employment and stock redemption agreements upon his voluntary departure to work for another firm, and SSOE is obligated by the terms of the contracts to pay him $209,659.64 with interest, the full value of his improperly withheld stock, an Ohio federal court ruled. The court found that his employment agreement expressed an intent for an acceptable notice period to be determined prior to the employee’s termination date, that SSOE breached it by terminating the ...