Whistleblowing dismissal claims: Supreme Court rules on knowledge of decision-maker
Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti [2020] IRLR 129 SC
whistleblowing | protected disclosure | automatic unfair dismissal
In Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti, the Supreme Court held that, where a dismissal for making protected disclosures is hidden behind an invented reason that is adopted by the decision-maker, the reason for the dismissal is the hidden reason rather than the invented one.