Question juridique clé
Whether the employee’s refusal to follow the parent company’s return-to-Zagreb instruction constituted good cause for summary dismissal.
Solution extraite
The parent company was not entitled to issue that instruction under the employment contract; the refusal therefore did not amount to good cause.
Motifs extraits
Group law and unity of management do not create an employment-law instruction right for the parent company. The decisive factor is the contractual allocation of rights; here the contract was to be interpreted as a fixed four-year employment with the subsidiary, and it contained no agreement allowing assignment back to Zagreb.