The Supreme Court has restored the employment tribunal decision that a minister of religion was not an employee and could not therefore claim unfair dismissal.
In this week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, the EAT held that a post-termination disclosure can constitute a protected disclosure for the purposes of a detriment claim under the Employment Rights Act 1996.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal decision that a manager was unfairly dismissed for behaving in an "over-authoritarian manner" because he was not warned that a possible consequence of continuing to act in this way was dismissal.
David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Linda Quinn, Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
This tribunal decision provides another reminder to employers after Unison v London Borough of Barnet and another ET/3302128/2012 of the information on agency workers that they are required to produce during redundancy consultation.
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, concerns a school assistant who claimed that she was dismissed for whistleblowing after she went to the press over her treatment for telling parents that their child had been bullied.
This employment tribunal held that a heating engineer whose new employer had different types of client and required him to do more of his own administration work did not suffer substantial changes to his working conditions to his material detriment after a TUPE transfer.
The employer in this tribunal case had to deal with the common scenario of a transferred employee taking exception to being required to stick more strictly to contractual working hours.
Claire Thomas is managing associate, and Chris McAvoy, Joelle Parkinson, David Rintoul, and Gerri Hurst associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
The employment tribunal held that the claimant was fairly dismissed after making threats on Facebook to a colleague who had reported him to the employer for his frequent references to his workplace as "Dante's Inferno".