“Employees often resign, change their minds, want to withdraw the resignation, but the employer simply wants to move on,” Global Business Solutions chief executive officer Jonathan Goldberg told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
Last year, various disputes between employers and employees centred on whether employment agreements had come to an end due to resignations or dismissals issued through cellphone messages.<\/p>\n
The consultants found that a number of cases had arisen over the past few years in which people had argued that they did not mean what they said in SMSes.<\/p>\n
The idea that people can resign by SMS should not come as a surprise as text messaging was just another form of communication, labour analyst Tony Healy told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
Both Healy and Goldberg agreed that poorly controlled use of technology was affecting relationships between employers and employees.<\/p>\n
Courts were already finding that comments by staff about their places of work on social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter, can have legal repercussions.<\/p>\n