Being managed out, or made to feel forced to resign? Here's how to tell if it's constructive dismissal.
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Most people arriving here don't yet know the legal term for what's happening to them, they just know something feels wrong. Constructive dismissal is when your employer's conduct makes your working conditions so difficult that resigning becomes a reasonable response, not a free choice.
This might be your situation if
- Your employer has made your role impossible without ever formally dismissing you.
- You're being performance managed out through unrealistic or shifting targets.
- Your pay, hours, or duties have been cut or changed dramatically without a genuine reason.
- You feel you're being pushed to resign so your employer avoids a dismissal or redundancy process.
A single bad week usually isn't enough on its own, this is about a pattern serious enough that resigning was a reasonable response to it. Tell us specifically what's been happening and we'll help you understand whether it fits.
Common questions
Not necessarily deliberately in the sense of a plan, but the conduct needs to be serious enough that resigning was a reasonable response, not simply that you'd prefer things were different.
It may still be worth getting advice. What matters is why you resigned and what your employer did leading up to it, not just the timing of when you sought advice.
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