End of employment

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: EAT considers school assistant's whistleblowing claim

  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.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Respond to a heat-of-the-moment resignation

• Type:

  Tasks

  Deal with an employee who begins to underperform during their notice period

• Type:

  Tasks

  Work out if there is a requirement to pay notice pay where an employee who has exhausted entitlement to sick pay is being dismissed due to long-term incapacity

• Type:

  Tasks

  Draft a separation questionnaire

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing wider workforce of proposed redundancies

  A model letter to inform the wider workforce, who are not at risk, about a potential redundancy situation.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee confirming expiry of fixed-term contract

  A model letter dismissing an employee working under a fixed-term contract on the ground that the term of the contract is about to expire.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Fixed term contract clause (lasts for specific term)

  A model contract clause stating that a contract is for a fixed duration.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Fixed term contract clause (ends after particular task completed)

  A model contract clause stating that a fixed-term contract is for a particular task.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Fixed term contract clause (ends on specific event)

  A model contract clause stating that a fixed-term contract will terminate on the occurrence of a specific event.