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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Where two employees are dismissed fairly for the same misconduct, can the reinstatement of one render the other's dismissal unfair?
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, an employment tribunal held that a manager's dismissal for a one-off mistake that could have had fatal consequences was fair.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Employees' entries on social media critical that are of their employer will not always justify dismissal, as this case demonstrates.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case demonstrates the difficulties faced by employers in introducing workplace drug and alcohol testing.
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- Date:
- 8 February 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that, when considering dismissal of an employee for misconduct, an employer is not taken to have known mitigating facts that are known to the employee's manager but are withheld from the dismissing officer.
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- Date:
- 7 February 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has reinstated an employment tribunal decision that a nurse with a clean record was unfairly dismissed when she made a single lewd remark while restraining a patient having an epileptic fit.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Employers faced with an employee who has been convicted of a criminal offence outside work must look at all the circumstances and still follow their usual disciplinary procedure before making a decision to dismiss, as this tribunal judgment shows.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
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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- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, a first-aider's refusal to assist a student in need of help warranted his summary dismissal.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
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.