Four recent decisions by Singapore Employment Claims Tribunals offer practical guidance on disputes arising out of statutory wrongful dismissal claims, including poor-performance dismissals, jurisdictional thresholds, no-reason terminations, and involuntary resignation arising from medical accommodation issues.
Following the first wave of published Employment Claims Tribunals (ECT) decisions, the ECT published four further decisions addressing statutory wrongful dismissal and related jurisdictional issues: the dismissal of a probationary employee for alleged poor performance in JIW v JIX [2026] SGECT 7, the “relevant employee” threshold for statutory wrongful dismissal claims in JJC v JJD [2026] SGECT 8, no-reason termination with salary in lieu of notice in JJF v JJG [2026] SGECT 9, and involuntary resignation arising from medical accommodation issues in JJH v JJI [2026] SGECT 10.
Summary
The claimant was employed as a regional internal control audit manager, subject to a probationary period of six months. Shortly before the end of probation, the employer informed her that her performance had not met the standards required for confirmation and terminated her employment with two weeks’ written notice.
The employee brought a statutory wrongful dismissal claim in the ECT under section 14(2) of the Employment Act 1968 (the Act), arguing that
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