Fair Work Commission finds Cisco lawyer resigned, dismisses his claim

Everything turned first on one question: was he actually pushed out, or did he leave on his own? The kind of claim he brought only protects workers who were dismissed, so the Commission had to settle that before looking at anything else. It found he resigned by choice, which meant it could not hear the case, and threw the application out. 

Much of his account leaned on how he read WhatsApp messages with his manager. The Commission looked at the full exchanges rather than the snippets he had quoted, and found his version did not hold up. On the record, his manager had checked in often, wished him well, and told him to take the time he needed to recover. With all four witnesses showing credibility problems, the Commission trusted the emails and messages written at the time over what people recalled later. 

The Commission was still critical of how Cisco handled two money matters. On a bonus the company was not required to pay, it accepted the amount…