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Georgia employee handbooks can create implied contracts limiting at-will employment — but proper disclaimers preserve at-will status. NLRA also restricts certain handbook policies for employees.

Georgia immigrants ineligible for asylum may qualify for withholding of removal — protection from deportation to specific country, but no path to permanent residency or family petitions.

Georgia criminal restitution requires defendants to repay victims for losses caused by the crime — mandatory in many cases, enforceable as civil judgment, often non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.