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In law, wrongful dismissal, also called wrongful termination or wrongful discharge, is a situation in which an employee's contract of employment has been terminated by the employer, where the termination breaches one or more terms of the contract of employment, or a statute provision or rule in employment law.
Alternatively, even if sex workers do have section 23 rights, the Labour Relations Act – in denying protection against unfair dismissal to sex workers – imposes a justifiable limitation on those rights, because the limitation "gives effect" to the rule-of-law principle that courts should not sanction illegal activity.
A less severe form of involuntary termination is often referred to as a layoff (also redundancy or being made redundant in British English). A layoff is usually not strictly related to personal performance but instead due to economic cycles or the company's need to restructure itself, the firm itself going out of business, or a change in the function of the employer (for example, a certain ...
A pregnant Texas woman who says her unborn baby has a genetic condition and carrying the child to term could threaten her life filed suit against the state Tuesday, asking a court to declare she ...
A Texas judge ruled a pregnant woman who sued the state seeking an abortion can legally terminate her pregnancy Ashley Killough, Ed Lavandera and Andy Rose, CNN December 12, 2023 at 10:33 AM
Kate Cox, a Texas woman who had to ask a judge to end a pregnancy after discovering her child had an almost always fatal genetic condition, is a reminder of the priorities of state abortion laws ...
Visibly pregnant women are often judged as less committed to their jobs, less dependable, and more emotional compared to women who are not visibly pregnant. [128] A study conducted in 1998 showed that the wage rates of women without children were 81.3% of men's pay, but 73.4% of men's pay for women with children. [ 129 ]
The woman's baby has Trisomy 18 and "virtually no chance" of survival. Her doctor says the pregnancy poses grave risks to her health and fertility.