I am rather new to network-manager internals, but could you try the command
sudo nmcli con modify "$COMPANY VPN" ipv4.dns-priority -1 ipv4.dns-search ~.
Does this solve your problem?
I am rather new to network-manager internals, but could you try the command
sudo nmcli con modify "$COMPANY VPN" ipv4.dns-priority -1 ipv4.dns-search ~.
Does this solve your problem?