Commentary: What a cancer survivor’s wrongful dismissal case tells us about the employer-employee relationship

Commentary

When illness strikes or life gets in the way, employees will become temporarily less available to their employers. This is normal and should not be an exception to be managed away, say SUSS professor Victor Seah and Singapore Cancer Society’s Tan Kwang Cheak.

Recent cases of wrongful dismissal raise a broader question about how companies respond when their employees become, in operational terms, inconvenient, say these writers. (Photo: iStock/Wasana Kunpol)

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