Dismissal remains the most thorough and comprehensive work available on a problem that confronts employers, lawyers, judges and arbitrators every working day. This work deals with all the circumstances in which dismissals arise and are challenged.

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction and overview
• Chapter 2: What is a dismissal?
• Chapter 3: Who may be dismissed?
• Chapter 4: Was there a dismissal?
• Chapter 5: When did the dismissal occur?
• Chapter 6: Unfair dismissals
• Chapter 7: Automatically unfair dismissals
• Chapter 8: Dismissal for misconduct
• Chapter 9: Specific forms of misconduct
• Chapter 10: Procedural fairness in misconduct cases
• Chapter 11: Group misconduct
• Chapter 12: Misconduct outside the workplace and criminal conduct
• Chapter 13: Discipline and shop stewards
• Chapter 14: Dismissal for poor work performance
• Chapter 15: Dismissal for incapacity
• Chapter 16: Dismissal for operational requirements: Fair reason
• Chapter 17: Dismissal for operational requirements: Fair procedure
• Chapter 18: Dismissal for operational requirements: Selection and severance pay
• Chapter 19: Closures, mergers, transfers and sales of businesses
• Chapter 20: Unilateral change to terms and conditions of 
• employment
• Chapter 21: Other reasons for dismissal
• Chapter 22: Dismissal of unprotected strikers
• Chapter 23: Procedures for challenging dismissals
• Chapter 24: Remedies
• Table of cases
• Table of legislation
• Subject index