Natural disasters and “employment at will”

By Mike Switzer

Published December 20, 2024 at 6:30 AM EST

Joseph Seiner, Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.

Business interruptions caused by the hurricanes from two months ago certainly affected employers and employees alike. Our next guest says the extent to which companies could still require workers to show up to work in this type of situation has been challenging in our state’s “employment at will” environment. Mike Switzer interviews Joseph Seiner, the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice at the Joseph F. Rice School of Law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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