Abandonment

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1. What two elements are required for abandonment as a termination ground?
2. Who bears the burden of proving abandonment invoked as a just cause?
3. Is unexplained absence alone necessarily sufficient to establish abandonment?
4. A worker is absent because the employer expressly barred her from reporting. She promptly seeks reinstatement. The empl…
5. A worker promptly files an illegal-dismissal complaint seeking return to work after being told not to report. What bear…
6. After a dispute, a supervisor orders a driver to stop reporting and assigns no further work. The driver immediately req…
7. In a case where an employee must first establish the alleged dismissal, the employer also invokes abandonment as a term…
8. Explain why absence alone does not necessarily establish abandonment.
9. How should a tribunal assess abandonment when the employer told the worker not to report?
10. Distinguish the fact-of-dismissal inquiry from the abandonment defense.
11. May abandonment be inferred merely from ambiguous conduct without a positive overt act showing deliberate severance?
12. Which abandonment element is the more determinative under Ador?