"I think it is elementary that the plaintiff could not thereafter be dismissed from an employment that had ceased to exist. In my judgment, the plaintiff's dismissal coming after the...
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LABOUR LAW — Termination of Employment — Effect of Termination on Employer-Employee Relationship
"It seems to me that when an employer brings the contract of employment to an end by terminating it, the employee effectively ceases to be in the employment and his...
"Whereas clause 9 confers a general and unqualified right to either party thereto to terminate the contract of service at any time by giving to the other the three months...
"Where a contract contains a provision that either party thereto may determine it by specified notice or payment of prescribed sum of money in lieu thereof, such notice or payment...
"The court in construing the relationship of the parties to a written agreement must confine itself to the plain words and meaning which are derivable from their rights and obligations...
"Under the common law, an employer is entitled to bring the appointment of his employee to an end for any reason or no reason at all. So long as he...
"Two of the vital ingredients that must co-exist before a contract of employment may be said to import statutory flavour include the following:- 1. The employer must be a body...
"The rules and regulations which are claimed by an employee to be part of the terms and conditions of his employment capable of giving it statutory flavour and be of...
"The conditions of service were to be drawn up and approved by the Corporation. Those terms and conditions ... are not a statutory regulation nor is it given any statutory...
"An employer has a discretion to give lesser punishment to an employee but it has no discretion to give a higher punishment. Since termination of appointment is a lesser punishment,...
"If upon considering the representations of the officer, the Commission is of the opinion that the officer does not deserve to be dismissed but that the facts of the case...
"Where an appointment of a civil servant is terminated in accordance with the Civil Service Rules, the civil servant has no valid cause of action against the terminating authority or...