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• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  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.

• Type:

  Contract clauses

  Garden leave contract clause

  A model contract clause setting out terms relating to garden leave.

• Date:

  9 November 2011

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  EAT rules sick employees must give notice of intention to take holiday in order to be paid for it

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that employees on sick leave must, to be paid for holiday under the Working Time Regulations 1998, give the required statutory notice during the relevant leave year of their intention to take that holiday. 

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter confirming return of personal belongings to employee after resignation or dismissal

  A model letter to an employee confirming return of personal belongings after they have resigned or been dismissed.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing competitor of contractual obligations of employee on garden leave

  A model letter informing a competitor of the contractual obligations of an employee on garden leave.