This decision holds that for three reasons an employee failed to state a Tameny claim for wrongful termination in volation of public policy as embodied in Santa Monica’s ordinance requiring employers to rehire workers laid off due to economic downturns. First, the employee could not establish a violation of the ordinance since he had not been employed for six months or more before the layoff as the ordinance required. Second, the Tameny tort applies only to public policies emanating from the constitution or statutes, not ordinances. Third, failure to rehire is not termination, and there is no reason to extend the wrongful termination tort to wrongful failure to rehire.