Cassation File No. 219345 Dismissal of civil servants A civil servant could not be legally dismissed for the sole reason that he refused an appointment to a certain position.
Cassation File Number 200687 labour law foreigners
The provisions of labour proclamation no.1156 governing the duration of the employment contract are not applicable to foreigners employed in Ethiopia
Forced Resignation Under Ethiopian Employment Law
Forced Resignation and Constructive Dismissal Valid Grounds Time-Limit Compensation and Severance Pay There are two mechanisms an employee may terminate his employment contract upon his own initiation. The first one is by […]
Contract of Employment: Issue of Fact or Law?
Determining the existence of a contract of employment under Article 4 (1) requires resolving legal and factual questions as appropriate. The fulfilment of basic elements of the contract is determined through evidence […]
Incompetence as Ground of Termination of Employment
Incompetence is one of the valid grounds of termination of employment contract upon notice. Article 28/1/a/ of the Labour Proclamation No. 1156-2019 lists three instances constituting incompetence. These are; Manifest loss of […]
Judicial Limitations on Employer’s Power of Transfer of Workers
In almost all levels of the judiciary, one could hardly find any decision interpreting or applying the provisions of the labour proclamation dealing with variation of employment contract. It is not because […]
Termination Notice: Procedure and Effects
When an employment contract is terminated for reasons set out in Article 28, i.e. competence and health of the worker and operational requirements of the undertaking, the employer is obliged to give […]
Public holidays: Entitlement and Pay
Public Holidays in Ethiopia Not working on a holiday Working on a holiday Working overtime on public holiday Out of 195 countries, Cambodia tops the rank with the highest number of public […]
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