End of employment

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• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee notifies their employer that they are pregnant after they have given notice of their resignation, will they be entitled to statutory maternity pay?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Employee fairly dismissed for lying to court about employer's stance on her jury service

  An employee's lies to a third party can be grounds for dismissal for breach of trust and confidence, as this case demonstrates.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If employee representatives are elected to consult on redundancies, how should those elections be conducted?

• Type:

  FAQs

  When does an employer have to notify the Government of collective redundancies?

• Date:

  15 September 2010

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Discipline: Consolidation, with the employee's consent, of old and new allegations at a second disciplinary hearing was fair

  In Pinto v Gloucestershire NHS Primary Care Trust EAT/0351/09, the EAT held that an employer acted reasonably in dismissing an employee for gross misconduct after she agreed that a final written warning should be set aside, and the allegations that led to it considered in a fresh disciplinary hearing, together with a number of new allegations of misconduct.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Driver who walked out when hours were reduced was unfairly dismissed after 14-minute disciplinary hearing

  The employer in this case was determined to get rid of an employee who was off sick for 11 months after an accident at work for which it admitted liability, leading to a finding of unfair dismissal.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfairly dismissed whistleblower wins £1.2 million compensation

  Compensation for a successful whistleblowing claim is unlimited, as the employer in this case found to its cost.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Should regular overtime be taken into account when calculating weekly earnings for redundancy pay purposes?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What are the consequences for an employer that dismisses an employee to avoid paying them statutory maternity pay?

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Manager's mishandling of flexible working request led to constructive dismissal

  A manager's disastrous mishandling of an application for flexible working, from an employee who had returned from maternity leave, meant that she resigned and successfully claimed constructive dismissal.