Of the Four Types of Discharge, Firing

question 4

Multiple Choice

Of the four types of discharge, firing

• A) results from an employee's poor
• Performance-that is, from his or her failure to fulfill expectations.
• B) is for-cause dismissal-the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on.
• C) usually refers to the temporary unemployment experienced by hourly employees and implies that they are "subject to recall."
• D) designates the permanent elimination of a job as a result of workforce reduction, plant closing, or departmental consolidation.

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Definitions:

Dominant Tenement

In property law, the estate that benefits from an easement that burdens a neighboring estate (the servient tenement).

Estate in Land

A legal interest or right in a property, determining the duration and nature of ownership.

Fee Simple

A legal term referring to the most extensive ownership interest in land that one can possess, which is unlimited in duration, inheritable, and not subject to any restrictions.

Joint Tenants

Joint tenants are co-owners of property who share equal rights to the entire property and have a right of survivorship, meaning when one dies, the other automatically inherits the entire property.