PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES AGAINST ABRUPT DISCHARGE

Authors

G. T. Schwenning, University of North Carolina

Abstract

The dismissal compensation law movement is a significant, though relatively new, effort on the part of industrial nations to minimize the hazards of employment uncertainty. It is a development in labor legislation of recent origin designed to stabilize employment contracts by limiting employers' freedom of arbitrary and abrupt discharge. Where such statutes have been enacted, employers are required to give their employees advance notice of the termination of the labor contract or to pay compensation in lieu of notice. The length of the time of notice ranges in different countries from five days to two years, while the discharge compensation varies in amount from one week's to five years' earnings, plus certain other indemnities.

Recommended Citation

G. T. Schwenning, PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES AGAINST ABRUPT DISCHARGE, 30 Mich. L. Rev. 666 (1932).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol30/iss5/3