Supreme Court allows severance for public employee whose elected term expired causing dismissal.

The Supreme Court reversed the lower court's dismissal of the appeal, ruling that the employee was entitled to severance pay. The plaintiff, a municipal union executive who was also a council member, was dismissed when his elected term expired. The court held that the expiration of the term was the sole and necessary cause for the termination of the employment contract. Consequently, the court determined that the dismissal occurred in connection with the expiration of the term, mandating the payment of severance.