Key legal question
Whether the employee's letter of 15 December 2003 was a mutual termination offer or only a request for assurances before returning to work.
Extracted holding
It was only a request for clarification and guarantees before resuming work, not an offer to end the contract.
Extracted reasoning
Under the trust principle, the letter and medical note could not reasonably be understood as a proposal for consensual termination; post-letter events were irrelevant.