If a worker is employed under a” fixed-term” contract, and the employer allows the contract to expire and terminates the worker, that may amount to an unfair dismissal.

The key question is whether the contract was genuinely a fixed-term or short-term contract which the worker was aware of at the time he entered the contract, or whether the worker was actually permanently employed and the employer was using the “fixed-term” contract merely as a label/disguise to limit his obligations to the worker.

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