> A 35% wage cut is de-factor "you're fired, but we'll re-hire you at this lower rate" and is likely to make you eligible for unemployment as a result, as it's clearly a substantial modification to the employment contract between the two parties.

It's not so cut-and-dry, and in fact, there's already case law in New York holding that pay cuts of about one-third are not inherently constructive dismissal, and that it depends on the particulars of the individual's case.

With that on top of everything else, it's a really far stretch to read the one-line description from the article that the driver quit because of "low pay" and infer that constructive dismissal is applicable here.