The dismissal is a provision with which the employer puts an end to an employment relationship and is identified as an institution of labor law.
With the dismissal, therefore, the employer can decide to interrupt an employment relationship with one of his employees, but the law regulates different types of dismissal justified by the occurrence of specific circumstances.
In fact, the employer, on the basis of the conditions that occur, is required to apply a certain type of dismissal that it provides for the specific case, recalling that in Italy there are two types of dismissal: collective and individual .
Below are the different types of individual dismissal:
- Disciplinary dismissal which is motivated by the worker’s behavior and can be distinguished in dismissal for just cause when occurs a circumstance that does not allow the continuation of the employment relationship and dismissal for justified subjective reason in case of non-fulfilment of contractual obligations;
- Economic dismissal also called dismissal for justified objective reason;
- Discriminatory dismissal in case of unlawful dismissal for discriminatory reasons by the employer. In these cases, the legal act of dismissal is void.
