I am inquiring on behalf of my husband who was dismissed from his job as an assistant manager at a busy pizza franchise in Atlanta, GA. He was dismissed on the basis of having alcohol on the premises, despite the fact that this company has no written drug/alcohol policy and the GM himself shows up to work extremely intoxicated at times. The secondary charge was that there were “variances in the cash deposits,” but my husband never had a shortage – although every so often there was *more* money deposited than was reported. There were multiple other abuses as well leading up to the dismissal.

Does he have a case? It is my understanding that under Ga law we can't attack from the angle of wrongful termination because his relationship with his employer was an at-will relationship ... but it would be very easy to prove that my husband was not at fault as defined under Ga law. He had no knowledge that the infractions he committed would have led to termination and had no prior warning whatsoever, and he never received an employee handbook, much less a written drug/alcohol policy.

Thank you for your time.