constructive dismissal
C1CEFR level
70/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
A resignation that the law treats as a dismissal because the employer has committed a fundamental breach of contract forcing the employee to leave.
After being demoted without justification, he resigned and claimed constructive dismissal.
Business noun
A resignation forced by an employer making conditions intolerable, treated in law as a firing.
Stripping his duties down to nothing could amount to constructive dismissal.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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