Rethinking the employer's summary dismissal power in the employment contract
Lambropoulos, Victoria 2015, Rethinking the employer's summary dismissal power in the employment contract, PhD thesis, Department of Law, Deakin University.
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Rethinking the employer's summary dismissal power in the employment contract
The principal subject of this thesis is the employer’s summary dismissal power under Australian contract law. Summary dismissal is by far the most brutal way that an employment relationship may end. Its suddenness can have long-lasting economic and psychological impacts upon the dismissed employee. However, the area has been neglected in legal scholarship. The result of this is that issues arising from the jurisprudence have not been the subject of critique and scrutiny, until now. This thesis addresses this gap in the scholarship. The thesis also proposes a new approach to resolving these disputes based on the proportionality concept. An employer's decision to dismiss its employees in this way should be commensurate to the detriment caused by the employee's actions. Therefore, one 'should not use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.'
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eng
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180118 Labour Law
Socio Economic Objective
940599 Work and Institutional Development not elsewhere classified
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