Holly refuses her employer's request to falsify the contents of a report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).The employer subsequently discharges Holly for "not following orders." Identify the exception to the employment-at-will doctrine that Holly is likely to choose when she files a wrongful discharge suit.
A) Equal employment
B) Public policy
C) Implied contract
D) Reverse discrimination
E) Affirmative action

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A discharge can be found illegal if it violates a public policy (for example, firing an employee for refusing to do something illegal). In this case, employment at will is limited because Holly can establish that the discharge violated public policy because she refused her employer's request to falsify the contents of a report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Holly Refuses Her Employer's Request to Falsify the Contents of a Report