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Legal analysis of the employer’s authority to require the employee, in the future, to perform the working time originally agreed upon when the contracted hours have not been effectively worked, and how this situation should be managed to prevent labor disputes.

Clear analysis of the right to vote during working hours in Costa Rica, employer obligations, and employee responsibilities.

Disciplinary Procedures in Private Companies.

The article explains the precautions employers must take when managing overtime for their workers.

Short reflection on some differences between a dismissal at the will of the employer (with employer liability) when discrimination is alleged, versus a punitive dismissal (without employer liability).

The possibility is evaluated for the employer to initiate a disciplinary process based on comments made by the employee on social networks.

Incidents of aggression between workers are scrutinized as grounds for termination without bearing employer responsibility.

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.

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.