An employee who is absent from work for a long time because of sickness or ill-health is entitled to a certain level of sympathetic consideration from their employer. An employer is not however required to employ an employee indefinitely in circumstances where the employee has been unfit for work for some time.
Absence Management
Employers should have procedures in place for dealing with medium to long term absence. A consistent application of the procedures assists an […]

One of the most important purposes of labor law is to protect the relationship between an employee and an employer and to secure an employee’s job. In order to achieve this purpose, an internationally accepted “job security” concept was born in early 20th century1. The purpose of job security is to protect the employee, the weaker party in an employment relationship, against the employer. In a broad sense, job security means the protection of an […]