“…The question is if he is wrongfully dismissed, should he lose these benefits? In the case Manupens v. Leon [1919] 1 K.B. 208 at p. 211, Lush J., in a similar action said-“The plaintiff was entitled, upon the defendant’s breach of the contract, to recover for the loss he had sustained by reason of the breach, the loss being measured by, or represented by, the damages flowing from the breach within the contemplation of the parties to the contract”. In that case, a barber who was wrongfully dismissed sued for his salary and the accepted tips he would have received if he was still working. Lush J., continued- “It was clearly within the contemplation of the parties to the contract that the plaintiff would received these tips… The defendant, therefore, knew and contemplated, when the contract was entered into, that if it should be broken by the plaintiff being summarily dismissed, the plaintiff would sustain the loss in respect of tips which he would otherwise have received”. In Lake v. Campbell (1862) Vol. V., L.T. 582, a gift of 20 which the plaintiff would have earned under the contract but for his dismissal was allowed; and in the case of Bold v. Brough, Nicholson and Hall Ltd.[1964] 1 W.L.R. 201, where the plaintiff was held to have been wrongfully dismissed, the measure of damages was held to include salary and commission due to the plaintiff, and also staff pension and assurance scheme.”
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