Section 19 Employment

• Library: Damages 2012

The rule of avoidable consequences also applies to employment relationships, permitting the employer to reduce damages recoverable by a wrongfully discharged employee by whatever the employee has earned or by reasonable diligence could have earned during the period of wrongful discharge. Wolf v. Mo. State Training Sch. for Boys, 517 S.W.2d 138 (Mo. banc 1974). Wolf also held that, in the absence of a constitutional, charter, or statutory provision that unmistakably dictates a contrary result, the rule applies to...