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Constructive dismissal can be a ‘Mission Impossible’

If you enjoyed Top Gun: Maverick last year consider its predecessor released in South Africa in 1986.

That year, we not only imported an iconic movie into our popular culture but also the concept of constructive dismissal into our law. It was 37 years ago that the Labour Court’s predecessor, the Industrial Court, agreed that employers should not act wrongfully to cause the destruction of employment relationships and held that sometimes an employee’s resignation could be seen as the employer

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