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The NHS trust in this case unfairly treated two relatively minor criminal convictions as an adequate reason to dismiss a worker, in a case that is a cautionary tale for employers that treat a criminal conviction as an automatic reason for dismissal.
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A civilian police worker unsuccessfully claimed unfair dismissal and disability discrimination after she lost her job for a dangerous driving conviction. This is an example of an employer legitimately dismissing a worker who has been convicted of a criminal offence outside work.
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In this well-publicised case, the employer was in the unenviable position of having to decide whether or not an employee who had been charged with, but not yet tried for, murder should be dismissed.
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The employer in this case was entitled to take a stern view of an isolated incident in which an employee lost her cool and swore at a team leader.
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An increasing number of tribunal cases involve employees making work-related comments on Facebook. This case shows that derogatory comments will by no means always justify dismissal.
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As this case shows, it is not always fair to dismiss an employee for attending work under the influence of alcohol.
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The employer in this case had a laudable zero-tolerance policy on racism, but failed to take a common-sense view of the background to an accusation that a manager had made a racist comment.
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In this case, a small employer's careful disciplinary investigation, using CCTV footage, led to the successful defence of an unfair dismissal claim.
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This is a rare instance, along with the decision in Barlow v Ranc Care Homes Ltd ET/1101527/10, of an employment tribunal ordering an employer to reinstate an unfairly dismissed employee.
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In this case, the tribunal held that a police force was entitled to dismiss a long-serving employee who admitted that she had committed a single act of dishonesty outside work.