BTX3991 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fundamental Breach, Bob Jane, Natural Person

• School: Monash Caulfield
• Department: Business Law and Taxation
• Course: BTX3991
• Professor: All

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I(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause : by terminating the contract of employment, the employer deprives individual workers of the major source of income. The dismissal may also deprive workers of membership of the most significant community in their life and jeopardise their status in society more generally. With fixed term and contingent contracts, termination of employment is by pre-arrangement: e. g. when a set date is reached or a task is finished. A fixed term contract is a contract that is to last for a defined period (e. g. 6 months, 3 years) When the agreed end date is reached, the contract automatically expires. Where an employer allows an employee to work past the expiry data, they will be taken to have agreed to the employment becoming indefinite. Many fixed term contracts (especially those of longer duration) provide that the contract may be terminated before the expiry date by one party giving the other a specified period of notice.