Dismissal

New and updated

• Date:

  2 November 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

  We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: Work-related app on personal phone removed home and work life separation

  In Alsnih v Al Quds Al-Arabi Publishing & Advertising, an employment tribunal held that the dismissal of an employee for refusing to use a work-related app on her personal phone was procedurally and substantively unfair.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Decision-maker not conducting disciplinary meeting did not make dismissal unfair

  In Charalambous v National Bank of Greece, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the employee's dismissal was fair even though the manager who made the decision to dismiss had not attended the disciplinary hearings.

• Date:

  27 June 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Unfair dismissal claims - recent tribunal cases

  It is critical for employers to follow a fair procedure before dismissing an employee. Here, Fiona Cuming, senior employment law editor at XpertHR, discusses a series of recent employment tribunal decisions where unfair dismissal claims proved successful because of procedural mistakes made by the employer during the disciplinary process.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Whistleblowing: Employment tribunal round-up

  We look at three recent employment tribunal decisions where the employee succeeded in their whistleblowing claim.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Constructive dismissal tribunal round-up: Express and implied breaches

  We look at three recent employment tribunal decisions where the unfair constructive dismissal claim was successful because of mistakes made by the employer that breached the employment contract expressly or impliedly.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disciplinary procedures and unfair dismissal: Tribunal round-up

  We look at four recent employment tribunal decisions where the unfair dismissal claim was successful because of procedural mistakes made by the employer during the disciplinary process.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Case law round-up

  We look at four cases in which dismissals of employees in their 50s or 60s were found to amount to direct age discrimination, including two where redundancies were rushed through to avoid enhanced pension payments.

• Type:

  How to

  How to implement a lay-off or short-time working

  Practical guidance on implementing a lay-off or short-time working, including entitlement to guarantee payments and statutory redundancy pay.

• Date:

  24 March 2023

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  April 2023 employment law changes: Four tasks for HR

  HR professionals must ensure that their organisation is on top of the raft of employment law developments in April 2023. These changes include rises in national minimum wage rates, gender pay gap reporting deadlines, and increases to statutory redundancy pay and maternity pay.