She was told: take an unfamiliar role, resign, or wait to be fired. She resigned - and later called it forced.
The worker joined the company in January 2024 as a senior social media executive on $4,000 a month. She passed her probation. Then, from March that year, her job grew to include what the company called "creative" functions, folded in as part of a company-wide consolidation. She agreed to take it on, though she said the deal came with a promise - training, mentorship - that, in her telling, never fully materialized.
That promise became the whole case.
By November 2025 she was on a three-month performance improvement plan, judged across four areas - three creative (video production, general production and execution, and photography and styling) and one covering her original content-planning work. She didn't pass it. Her employer's HR head then spelled out the options: consider redeployment into one of two open roles, both pitched as "client-facing" and neither remotely close to her actual job, or resign. Do nothing, and the company would terminate her itself.
She picked resignation. At her own request, the company shortened her notice period so she could start elsewhere sooner, moving her last day forward by a week. She began her new job on 25 May 2026. Barely a month later, she filed a claim for wrongful dismissal - first pricing it at $20,000, on the theory she deserved half a year's salary for the extra creative work, then revising it down to a single month's...
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