Practitioners are familiar with the concept of constructive dismissal: the employer commits
a repudiatory breach of the employment contract, in response to which the employee resigns.
Not exact matches
It's a concept grounded in
contract law, i.e. for a claim to succeed, the employee must show that their employer's conduct was so bad (what's called a
repudiatory breach of contract) that it destroyed the
employment contract, thus entitling them to resign.
You warrant as a strict condition
of this agreement that as at the date hereof... (b) there are no circumstances
of which you are aware or
of which you ought reasonably to be aware which would constitute a
repudiatory breach on your part
of your
contract of employment which would entitle or have entitled the company to terminate your
employment without notice.»