Updating authors: Julian Hoskins and Sarah Lamont

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Summary
Future developments
Practical example
Action point checklist
Key references
Questions and answers
Termination overview
Termination by mutual consent
Expiry of a fixed-term contract
Termination by performance
Frustration
Dismissal
Resignation
Constructive dismissal/repudiation of contract
Date of termination

Summary

9.1

• Termination of employment is not a subject that can be categorised into a neatly packaged area of law. The termination of a contract of employment may have many ramifications ranging from an employee bringing a claim for breach of contract or perhaps a claim for disability discrimination, to an employer considering whether it should provide the employee with a reference or whether it can enforce the restrictive covenants in that employee's contract of employment post termination.