Case: Individual Employment Rights/Tortious Interference (D.N.M.)

Total Facility Solutions, Inc. and one of its environmental health and safety process managers are entitled to summary judgment on the tortious interference and defamation claims of a safety manager laid off by TFS subcontractor IES Communications, the federal district court in New Mexico ruled. The IES safety manager was removed from a TFS project after he made statements about an alleged safety violation that the TFS manager perceived as “hostile” and threatening. No evidence showed that TFS actively sought to have him terminated by IES, that his removal from the project was a substantial factor in IES’s decision to ...