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Fran Perry Case Summary

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Fran Perry is an M.D. that was employed at Octagon Pharmaceuticals and as her job conducted research on potential drugs. After Fran was assigned to research a certain drug, Fran found that the drug had a foul taste. The company decided to add saccharine to the formula, however, Fran believe that saccharine was not a good ingredient to add in the formula. As a result, Fran refuse to participate in the testing of the drug on humans. Furthermore, the company terminated Fran because she refused to test the drug. With the information provided Fran is an individual who was unlawfully terminated. Under public policy violation “exception would be an employee fired in retaliation for opposing some illegal activity being performed by his or her company”.

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