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While the employer is unable to implement a dismissal with liability while the worker is incapacitated, there is no rule prohibiting executing a dismissal without liability if it is determined that the worker has committed a serious offense before or during the incapacity.

A brief analysis of the most critical aspects of severance pay, its calculation, and in which cases the employer must pay it within the labor relations of the private sector.

Unfair competition is analyzed as a cause for dismissal without employer responsibility.

In the case of Costa Rica, low performance or low productivity is a cause for dismissal without employer responsibility that is implicitly contained within the Labor Code and that is recognized by the jurisprudence of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Prescription of disciplinary power.

Treatment that should be given to the hiring of personnel who already have an old-age pension.

The treatment that should be given to both occasional consumption and alcoholism among workers.

Analysis of unjustified absences as grounds for dismissal without employer responsibility.

Considerations regarding work notice.

On the occasion of judgment No. 2021-12547 of the Constitutional Chamber, it is analyzed whether there is an obligation of the employer to express in the dismissal letter with employer liability the specific reason (a detail of the events that occurred) that originates the termination of the employment contract.