Line manager training guide looking at the law and best practice on retirement, including whether compulsory retirement is permissible, voluntary retirement, and managing employees where no compulsory retirement is in place.
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
In Woodcock v Cumbria Primary Care Trust [2012] IRLR 491 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the employer was justified in issuing a redundancy dismissal notice to an employee prior to formal consultation so as to avoid his remaining in its employment until his 50th birthday.
A model contract clause regarding third-party pressure to dismiss for use when drafting the terms and conditions of employment of an employee who works on the site of a third party.