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Employer Cannot Require a Worker to Commit an Illegal Act

By Thomas J. Crane on May 1, 2012
Posted in Whistle blower

There is no statute in Texas protecting workers from being forced to commit illegal acts.  So, prior to 1985, if your employer told you to rob the local bank and you refused, you could have been fired.  But, now there is judge-made law in the form of Sabine Pilot v. Hauck, 687 S.W.2d 733…

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