Dismissal is the most thorough and comprehensive work available on a problem that confronts employers, lawyers, judges and arbitrators every working day – when it is fair to terminate the relationship with employees, for whatever reason this regrettable step may be deemed necessary? This work deals with all the circumstances in which dismissals arise and are challenged – from dismissals for misconduct and incapacity, through retrenchments, automatically unfair dismissals, dismissals of protected and unprotected strikers, to the procedures required before such dismissals can lawfully be effected and challenged. Written in a clear and readable style, the exposition of each principle is illustrated with examples drawn from the case law. This second edition adds many judgments handed down since the first edition was published four years ago, and incorporates the 2014 amendments to labour legislation relevant to the topic. Dismissal forms part of a 4-volume series, and can where necessary be read with its companion volumes – Employment Rights, Collective Labour Law and Labour Litigation and Dispute Resolution.