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Dismissal

New and updated

  • Type:
    Editor's choice

    Coming soon

    Updated to include information on how to register for our webinar on statutory neonatal care leave. 

  • Date:
    6 January 2025
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment law 2025: Six key tasks for HR

    In 2025, HR professionals face the unique challenge of dealing with business-as-usual employment law changes, such as increases in statutory maternity, paternity and sick pay, while also beginning their preparations in earnest for the looming Employment Rights Bill. We look at what HR needs to do to meet its employment law obligations and prepare for the coming year

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Collective redundancy consultation

    Updated to reflect the launch of a Government consultation on collective redundancy, which was published on 21 October 2024.

  • Date:
    6 December 2024
    Type:
    Commentary and insights

    Employment Rights Bill: 10 key policies employers must revamp

    The Employment Rights Bill packs 28 imposing employment law reforms into its 158 pages. While HR professionals await the substantive details needed to flesh out the Bill, we outline the key policies that you will need to update and an overview of what those updates might involve.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Unfair dismissal

    Updated to reflect that the Employment Rights Bill has been amended to include provisions to extend time limits for tribunal claims.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfairly dismissed for swearing due to toxic workplace with widespread "banter"

    In Ogden v Booker Ltd, an employment tribunal held that the employee's dismissal for gross misconduct was unfair due to procedural flaws and a toxic workplace culture that lacked managerial enforcement of dignity at work standards.

  • Type:
    Employment law guide

    Redundancy

    Updated to include information on De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK, in which the Court of Appeal considered the fairness of the consultation process for individual redundancies.

  • Type:
    Leading practice guides

    Supporting redundancy survivors: Survivor syndrome

    Enhanced with data from Brightmine redundancy research on how the impact of redundancies is assessed.

  • Type:
    Employment law cases

    Court of Appeal rules on consultation process for individual redundancies

    In De Bank Haycocks v ADP RPO UK, the Court of Appeal restored the tribunal's decision that the redundancy dismissal was fair and held that "general workforce consultation" is not necessary where the collective consultation requirements do not apply.

  • Date:
    24 October 2024
    Type:
    Podcasts and webinars

    Webinar: Employment Rights Bill - how HR can get ahead of the changes

    In this webinar, Brightmine legal editors Stephen Simpson and Zeba Sayed explain what the changes are going to be, what employers can do now to begin preparing and the potential timelines for implementation.