Within One Term of Election: Legal Problems of Varying and Terminating the Employment Contract of a University Lecturer
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: A university lecturer elected for a fixed term rarely experiences the change or termination of an employment contract as a single legal act; it comes as a sequence of decisions, each narrowing the options for the next. Using the case of a hypothetical associate professor over a five-year term, the study looks at reduced and increased teaching hours, promotion following a competition, acting headship, a university merger, parental leave, the end of the contract term, a negative appraisal and a student complaint. For every episode it sets the Labour Code of Uzbekistan against the competitive-selection regulation, draws on solutions from Russian, German, Polish and Japanese law and on ILO and UNESCO instruments, and formulates seven amendments to protect teaching staff.
Author: Pulatov Mirzohid Kuzimurodovich
Institution: Tashkent State University of Law
Language: English
Topic: Labor Law and Work Dynamics
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225559562