End of employment

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employees with less than the required service to claim unfair dismissal who believe that they have been unfairly selected for redundancy bring a tribunal claim?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Given that the expiry of a fixed-term contract constitutes dismissal, what will usually be a fair reason for dismissal?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Does an employee need a minimum period of service to bring a claim of unfair dismissal when dismissed by reason of a TUPE transfer?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where a fixed-term employee's contract is due to terminate while they are on maternity leave, must the employer re-employ them at the end of the maternity leave?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the difference between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Must an employee have been employed for a particular period of time before they can claim constructive dismissal?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an underperforming employee on a fixed-term contract be dismissed before the end of the fixed term?

• Date:

  1 February 2012

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: Dismissal for health and safety reason can be automatically unfair where employer does not share employee's belief in danger

  In Oudahar v Esporta Group Ltd [2011] IRLR 730 EAT, the EAT held that a dismissal could be automatically unfair for a reason related to health and safety even though the employer genuinely did not share the employee's belief that a situation was dangerous, and dismissed him for his repeated failure to undertake a task that he thought was unsafe.

• Type:

  Training

  Resignations - line manager training

  Line manager training guide explaining the steps that line managers should take when an employee resigns and the legal implications of a resignation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Decision to hold disciplinary hearing in employee's absence rendered dismissal unfair

  Employers should not be too hasty in holding a disciplinary hearing in an employee's absence, as this case demonstrates.