  The description of baryon resonance decays represents a major challenge of
strong interaction physics. We will report on a relativistic approach to
mesonic decays of light and strange baryon resonances within constituent quark
models. The calculations are performed in the point-form of relativistic
quantum mechanics, specifically focussing on the strange sector. It is found
that the relativistic predictions generally underestimate the experimental
data. The nonrelativistic approximation of the approach leads to the decay
operator of the elementary emission model. It is seen that the nonrelativistic
reduction has considerable effects on the decay widths.
