Regardless of how the absence is handled, having the returning leader managing 1 person instead of the team they previously managed and then putting them on a p

Regardless of how the absence is handled, having the returning leader managing 1 person instead of the team they previously managed and then putting them on a performance improvement plan sounds a lot like constructive dismissal [0]. This is of course going off only one side of the story. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal