End of employment

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• Type:

  How to

  How to make a payment in lieu of notice

  Updated to reflect changes to the rules on taxation of payments in lieu of notice from 6 April 2018.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter seeking employee's agreement to voluntary redundancy terms

  A model letter to to seek an employee's agreement to the terms of a voluntary redundancy.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter confirming employee's dismissal following voluntary redundancy

  A model letter to confirm an employee's dismissal following a voluntary redundancy programme.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter confirming termination date and final payments to employee who has resigned

  A model letter to confirm a resigning employee's termination date and set out their final payments.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee's resignation confirming payment in lieu of notice

  A model letter responding to an employee's resignation confirming payment in lieu of notice.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Notice period contract clause

  A model contract clause to set out terms relating to notice and pay in lieu of notice.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer pays an employee in lieu of notice, is the payment taxable?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Head teacher fairly dismissed for failure to disclose association with convicted sex offender

  In Reilly v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the Supreme Court held that a head teacher was fairly dismissed for failing to disclose her association with a convicted sex offender.

• Date:

  21 March 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Misconduct dismissals: Could the long-established approach to fairness be open to question?

  Consultant editor Darren Newman considers a recent case in which the Supreme Court judges seemed to cast doubt on the long-established approach to misconduct dismissals set out in Burchell.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Pregnancy discrimination: Decision to dismiss made before knowledge of pregnancy

  In Really Easy Car Credit Ltd v Thompson, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) allowed the appeal and held that the employer was not obliged to revisit its decision to dismiss when it became aware that the employee was pregnant.