Key legal question
Whether the employer's dismissal was abusive under employment law
Extracted holding
Yes. The dismissal was abusive because the employer failed to seek a de-escalation of the workplace conflict, reacted without prior discussion, and also targeted the employee's good-faith criticism of contested productivity measures; the manner and timing of the termination further made it abusive.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that Art. 336 OR also covers abusive exercise of the termination right and that Art. 328 OR imposes a duty to protect the employee's personality. Here, the employer did not attempt any reasonable conflict resolution, dismissed a long-serving employee shortly before retirement, and acted in a way that seriously violated the duty of considerate conduct.