Although the termination system is one of the most important sources of flexibility in employment, the Hungarian labour law reform of 2012 – definitely aiming flexibilisation – only limitedly touched upon this field. The main structure of the termination regime remained almost intact, except the termination of fixed-term employment and protection against dismissal. For the latter, especially the protection of union officials was weakened. Such downgraded protection raises questions of effective representation, if one remembers, that it is the same new act, which gave much more importance to unions through collective bargaining, opening the floor also to deviations from the Code to the detriment of the employee.