Responsibility of business for illegal dismissal for absence

This article deals with the conditions and the legal procedure of termination of an employment contract for absence. The author considers changes in appropriate provision of Employment code in comparison with Code of labour laws 1971. The article gives examples of disciplinary offences, which are regarded by courts as absences, and also examples of acts, which can not be regarded as absences. The author points to the fact, that labour legislation does not contain a criteria to qualify reasons of employee's absence as reasonable excuses, so the author suggests to amend Russian Employment code by approximate list of circumstances, which can be regarded as reasonable excuses.