End of employment

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  Letters and forms

  Letter informing external contacts about death of worker

  A model letter informing external contacts about the death of a worker.

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  Letters and forms

  Letter requesting that third party update its records in respect of worker who has died

  A model letter requesting that a third party update its records in respect of a worker who has died.

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  Employment law cases

  Next employee unfairly dismissed for refusal to work Christmas Eve shift

  A store manager for this large retailer took the wrong approach to a shift worker who insisted that she was not able to work on Christmas Eve, in a cautionary tale for employers that have strict rules requiring employees to work during the Christmas period.

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  Employment law cases

  Police force fairly dismissed community support officer after arrest over missing £15

  This employment tribunal found that a police force fairly dismissed a police community support officer (PCSO) over the unexplained disappearance of £15, despite the circumstantial nature of the evidence against her.

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  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal of reservist returning to work after deployment in Afghanistan

  In this case, the employer failed to meet its legal obligations to an employee who was a reservist returning from deployment in Afghanistan. The case was complicated by the fact that it was a client's refusal to have the employee back on site that resulted in his dismissal.

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  Employment law cases

  Administration did not justify failure to consult collectively over redundancies

  The employer in this case fell into the classic trap of burying its head in the sand and failing to consult collectively with employees over the realistic possibility that its business might close and its workforce be made redundant.

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  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: no compensation for dismissed employee who refused to communicate with colleague

  In this case, a small employer had to deal with a familiar problem for employers: what to do if employees' behaviour becomes unprofessional because they have fallen out with each other.

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  Employment law cases

  Postal worker "stabbed by a syringe" unfairly dismissed for taking one day's "fraudulent" sick leave

  The employer in this case took an extremely heavy-handed and, at times, frankly bizarre, approach to allegations that an employee "fraudulently" took one day's sick leave after he claimed that he had been stabbed in the finger by a syringe when sorting post.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Tori O'Neil, Tessa Harland, Sarah Wade and Ed Gregory are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Letters and forms

  Letter responding to employee's resignation requiring period of garden leave

  A model letter to inform an employee who has resigned that they are to be placed on garden leave throughout the notice period.