🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

despido improcedente

Pronunciation / Transliteration: des-pee-do im-pro-se-den-te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Wrongful Termination/ˈrɔŋ.fəl tɜːr.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Presentó una demanda por despido improcedente."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The firing of an employee by an employer in violation of the law, public policy, or an employment contract.

    "She filed a lawsuit against her former employer alleging wrongful-termination after reporting safety violations."
  2. 2

    The dismissal of a worker under illegal, discriminatory, or retaliatory circumstances.

    "Labor lawyers specialize in cases of wrongful-termination to protect workers' rights."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the Middle English 'wrongful' (from Old English 'wrang' meaning crooked or unjust) and the Latinate 'termination' (from Latin 'terminare', meaning to end or bound). The legal compound emerged in modern labor law to describe the illegal dismissal of an employee.

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