The subject of this paper is the termination of employment contracts in Croatian practice and law. Legal standards regulating termination of employment contracts have a central place in modern work law and are the subject of permanent scientific interest. Termination of employment is always a current subject of study because of the important social and economic consequences for the worker that has lost a job. Laws that restrict the employer's contractual freedom, or his / her authority to terminate employment, are nowadays inherent in virtually all national legal systems. The purpose of legislation on termination of employment contracts is to guarantee the safety of existing employment through the adoption of regulations protecting workers from arbitrary employer decisions: by establishing legitimate reasons for termination of employment contracts as a prerequisite for the validity of termination, and the basic rules of the cancellation procedure or other means of terminating the employment contract . The presented legal norms are not an unchangeable category. Contemporary labor relations are strongly influenced by the demand for an adaptable and competitive labor market. Strict labor-market regulations are often presented as a barrier to the creation and strengthening of economic and social well-being, and deregulation of the labor market is considered to be an important factor in economic growt hand job creation. New technologies have a strong influence on changing the structure of labor, as well as labor relationships in general, and impose a new role on the employment contract or employment relationship.