Summary
In Field v. Philadelphia Electric Company, 565 A.2d 1164 (Pa.Super. 1989) and Sorge v. Wright's Knitwear Corp., 832 F. Supp. 118, 121 (E.D.Pa. 1993) the courts indeed hold that the public policy set forth in a federal statute, including OSHA, announced a clear and significant policy of Pennsylvania. Hence, in those cases an employee could bring a claim for wrongful discharge based on that federal statute.
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Submitted September 26, 1989.
Decided November 14, 1989.
Appeal No. 89 Western District Appeal Docket 1988 from the Order of the Commonwealth Court Dated January 13, 1988, Entered at No. 3203 C.D. 1986, Affirming the Order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Decision No. B-253400, Dated October 9, 1986.
Richard E. Gordon, Grossinger Gordon, Pittsburgh, for appellant.
Clifford Blaze, Deputy Chief Counsel, Carol A. Shaffner, Secretary, Unemployment Compensation Bd. of Review, Harrisburg, for appellee.
Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.
ORDER
The order of the Commonwealth Court is reversed on the basis of our holding in Poola v. Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 520 Pa. 562, 555 A.2d 97 (1989).