Supreme Court quashes labor court rulings to restore employee's right to claim damages for wrongful dismissal.

The Supreme Court quashed the lower court judgments and remanded the case for a new trial regarding an employee's claim for damages after wrongful dismissal. The employee argued that the dismissal notice was invalid because it was issued by an improperly constituted supervisory board rather than the management. The Court held that the management's initial notice effectively terminated the employment contract, making the subsequent board decision legally irrelevant and the dismissal effective from that date. Consequently, the employee had missed the statutory 14-day deadline to file a claim, but the Court applied a protective rule allowing the deadline to be preserved due to the employer's misleading conduct.