Employer Barred from Asserting Justified Extraordinary Dismissal After Acknowledging Post-Termination Wages

The appellant employer, having acknowledged the employee's contractual duration and corresponding wage entitlement for the period commencing May 1, 2004, was barred from asserting in appeal that a prior termination notice of April 26, 2004, constituted a justified extraordinary dismissal under Article 337 of the Code of Obligations. The court reasoned that the employer's recognition of the post-April 30, 2004, wage claim created an irreconcilable contradiction with the claim that an immediate dismissal had been justified on April 26, 2004, thereby rendering the pre-commencement extraordinary dismissal by the second employer unjustified without further inquiry.