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- Type:
- Employment law cases
With coronavirus-related employment tribunal rulings now appearing regularly, we examine four early examples of first-instance decisions where an employer dismissed an employee who refused, or was reluctant, to attend work because of health and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Type:
- Training
A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to collective redundancies.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Northbay Pelagic Ltd v Anderson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer's decision to dismiss an employee for installing a surveillance camera at work was unfair.
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- Date:
- 9 March 2021
- Type:
- Commentary and insights
While continuing to deal with the impact of coronavirus, HR professionals must ensure that their organisation complies with the usual raft of April employment law changes. In April 2021, these changes include the extension of IR35 reforms to the private sector, a tweak to the national minimum wage age bands, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and statutory maternity pay.
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- Type:
- Letters and forms
A model form to provide details of how a redundancy payment has been calculated.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model policy to offer employees an enhanced redundancy payment.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Kubilius v Kent Foods Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the delivery driver was fairly dismissed when he refused to wear a face mask at a client site.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In An Operations Coordinator v A Facilities Management Service Provider, the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland found that a worker was constructively dismissed when she resigned after she raised concerns about safe working and her employer rejected her request to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Hurley v East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, an employment tribunal held that the employee had been unfairly constructively dismissed and that the line manager's practical joke was, of itself, sufficient to amount to a fundamental breach of contract.
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- Type:
- Policies and procedures
A model checklist to use when holding an initial settlement discussion with an employee who is subject to a performance improvement procedure, or has reached the stage when a performance improvement procedure is about to be invoked.