On 26 February 2001, Ted Steele was summarily dismissed from his tenured post of Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong, following his contentious public comments about ‘soft marking,’ namely lower standards especially for full-fee-paying foreign students. The dismissal sparked a huge outcry in academic circles and beyond, where it was widel...

NFRs play a very key role in the development of high quality software. As NFRs are quality attributes of the software system, so it must be dealt properly and with care in the early phases of software development otherwise it will lead the system to failure or dismissal of quality requirement at later phases. NFRs have a very unique ability to conflict and contradict among themselves. And the m...

Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in this study, using an insider-outsider model and a longitudinal panel of large firms in Portu...

BACKGROUND This study sought to understand the relationship between school-based health centers (SBHCs) and academic outcomes such as early dismissal and loss of seat time (the time students are available in school to learn or to access support services). METHODS A quasi-experimental research design was used to compare rates of early dismissal and loss of seat time between students who receiv...

On 27 October 2020, the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in National Union of Metalworkers South Africa v Aveng Trident Steel (A Division (Pty) Ltd) 2021 42 ILJ 67 (CC). Following judgment, it is now commonplace that amendment to section 187(1)(c) Labour Relations Act, 1995 does not preclude an employer from dismissing employees for a permissible reason, such as its operational require...