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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that, in a conduct dismissal, an employer must establish that the reason or principal reason for the dismissal relates to conduct, and not that the conduct itself is culpable.
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Chris Cook is partner and Keely Rushmore senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.
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An employment tribunal has rejected the unfair dismissal claim of a long-serving employee with a clean disciplinary record who was dismissed over comments she made on Facebook about her employer.
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Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.
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- Letters and forms
A model letter to invite an employee to an appeal hearing where the employee has appealed their dismissal under the long-term sickness absence management procedure.
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The Court of Appeal has held that the employer was not required to match each category of gross misconduct to each allegation
and that how the conduct was eventually categorised was a matter for the decision-maker after all the evidence had been adduced.
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Chris Cook is a partner and Keely Rushmore is a senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Employment law cases
In Adesokan v Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd [2017] IRLR 346 CA, the Court of Appeal held that an employee's negligent failure to act constituted gross misconduct justifying summary dismissal.
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The Court of Appeal has held that an employer's decision to disregard new medical evidence and dismiss an employee on long-term sickness absence amounted to discrimination arising from disability and unfair dismissal.
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In Lenlyn UK Ltd v Kular EAT/0108/16, the EAT held that an employer's offer to an employee of a settlement agreement did not constitute a "protected conversation" because the employer had acted improperly in all the circumstances, and in doing so had also breached trust and confidence.