Dismissal is a major issue for distributive justice at work, because it normally has a drastic impact on an employee’s livelihood, self-esteem and future career. This article examines distributive justice under the US’s employment-at-will (EAW) system and New Zealand’s just-cause dismissal...

This study identifies and compares the severance compensation determinants of legal and human resource (HR) professionals, using court cases and a policy-capturing HR survey. Results confirmed that HR practitioners not only considered the factors critical in court decisions, which were length of...