Where an employment contract is for an indefinite duration, such indefiniteness by itself does not preclude job security provisions in an employee handbook from becoming part of the employment contract. Consideration other than continued service by the employee is not necessary for the enforceability of such provisions.

Procedural restraints on termination of employees contained in the appellant bank's Employee Handbook were contractually binding on the bank, and respondent employee was wrongfully terminated contrary to the handbook provisions.

Trial court evidentiary rulings were not prejudicial error requiring a new trial."

Leading Minnesota Supreme Court employment case. One commentator wrote on its twentieth anniversary, "Pine River opened the floodgates of employment manual litigation."

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