Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily found that the ordinary dismissal was triggered by the employee's refusal to forgo part of his variable salary.
Extracted holding
No. The dismissal letter and surrounding circumstances supported the finding that the employer reacted to the employee's refusal to accept another salary reduction.
Extracted reasoning
The Federal Court held that the letter expressly referred to the variable salary, the company's losses, and the request to cap the commission; the cantonal inference was therefore not untenable.