Make room for some young faces on the sales force

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Tom, Dock and Jane are employed by Atlantic Motors, a large chain of used car lots with several hundred employees. None of them was hired for a definite period of time and each has an excellent record of sales. On April 15, all of them were fired.

a) Tom, who is 50, was told by his manager that he was being fired so that the company could "make room for some young faces on the sales force."

b) Dock, who is 49, was fired because, on April 15, he had become frustrated with a prospective customer who was arguing about prices and had punched the customer in the nose.

c) Jane was fired because she repeatedly refused invitations from AI, the sole owner of Atlantic, to spend weekends with him at his beach house. AI had warned Jane that she would be fired if she continued to reject his advances.?Discuss, separately, whether Tom, Dock or Jane has any claim against Atlantic Motors.

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