Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the employer could treat the employee's absence as a definitive abandonment of the workplace under summary dismissal rules.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. Where the employer knows the absence is linked to illness or injury, it may not infer abandonment without requesting a medical certificate or return to work unless further circumstances make that futile.
Extrahierte Begründung
The only fact known to the employer was that the employee's mother said he was 'dying.' That required the employer to assume a health-related absence and to consider that a certificate might not yet have been sent or that the employee could not send one. No request for a certificate or return to work was proven.