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Unilateral pay cut breached employment contract, says NSW Court of Appeal

A company that unilaterally decided to cut its chief executive's $173,000 pay packet by 10% committed an anticipatory breach of the man's employment contract that entitled him to consider it rescinded, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled.

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