Dismissal

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  Employment law cases

  Constructive dismissal: unilateral change to job description among breaches that entitled claimant to resign

  The industrial tribunal in Northern Ireland has awarded over £40,000 for unfair dismissal to an employee who resigned after his employer breached his contract of employment on numerous occasions.

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  Employment law cases

  Employer's risk assessment failure after flood led to constructive dismissal

  In this case, an employer's failings regarding a health and safety risk assessment led to a finding of constructive dismissal against it.

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  FAQs

  Can an employer dismiss an employee because they are in prison?

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  Employment law cases

  First-aider who refused to help casualty was fairly dismissed

  In this case, a first-aider's refusal to assist a student in need of help warranted his summary dismissal.

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  Employment law cases

  Railway worker's incorrect use of de-icer did not justify summary dismissal

  This case concerned an employee whose incorrect use of de-icer at a railway station was blamed by his employer for a passenger's accident.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

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  Employment law cases

  Golf club fairly dismissed employee for excessive personal internet use at work

  An employment tribunal found that a golf club fairly dismissed an employee for excessive personal internet use during working hours, despite the fact that it did not have a formal policy on staff use of the internet.

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  Employment law cases

  Pilot fairly dismissed for dangerous helicopter manoeuvre

  In this case, a third party's insistence that an employee be removed from its operations left his employer with no choice but to dismiss him.

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  Employment law cases

  Unfair for small employer to have one person in charge of whole disciplinary process

  A family-run business made the classic mistake of having one person act as "judge, jury and executioner" in a disciplinary procedure against an employee accused of misconduct.

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  Employment law cases

  Employee's sick leave was really due to disciplinary sanction

  This case deals with a common situation faced by employers: an employee who, faced with a disciplinary sanction, goes on sick leave.