Waterfront Hotels Corporation in Boston offers a job to Carol, who lives in Denver. Carol orally agrees to work for Waterfront for two years. She moves her family to Boston and begins work. Three months later, she is fired for no stated cause. She files
a suit against the employer for rein-statement or pay. Waterfront pleads the lack of a written con-tract. In whose favor is the court likely to rule, and why?
?The court might conclude that under the doctrine of promissory estoppel, the employer is estopped from claiming the lack of a written contract as a defense. This oral contract may be enforced because the em-ployer made a promise on which the employee justifiably relied in mov-ing, the reliance was foreseeable, and injustice can be avoided only by en-forcing the promise. If the court strictly enforces the Statute of Frauds, however, the employee may be without a remedy because a con-tract that cannot be performed within one year from the day after its making must be in writing to be enforceable.
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