Unfair dismissal

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  Employment law cases

  Fashion retailer's "wardrobe guidelines" for staff did not suggest policy on employees' body sizes

  This constructive dismissal claim against a fashion retailer was unsuccessful, but it does reveal some of the difficulties that can arise when employers in this sector require their staff to project a particular image.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Colin Makin, Krishna Santra, Linda Quinn and Sandra Martins are senior associates and Melissa Powys-Rodrigues is an associate at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.

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  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: £15,000 for Portuguese care worker dismissed for single use of rude word

  A tribunal award of nearly £15,000 was the result of this employer's multiple failures when dismissing a Portuguese care worker with a poor grasp of English for the use of a single inappropriate word in the presence of a member of the public.

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  Employment law cases

  Energy supplier fairly dismissed employee recorded telling customer to "bugger off"

  A large energy supplier has successfully defended an employment tribunal claim that it unfairly dismissed a customer services adviser who commonly hung up on customers and was recorded telling one customer to "bugger off".

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  Employment law cases

  Fair dismissal of climbing instructor who "momentarily lost his cool" with customer

  An employee's inappropriate behaviour towards a customer can clearly be a fair reason for dismissal, as the unsuccessful claimant in this tribunal case found out.

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  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal of bar worker who told customer to "shut up" during argument

  An employee's inappropriate behaviour towards a customer is not necessarily a fair reason for dismissal when the surrounding circumstances are taken into account, as the employer in this tribunal case found out.

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  Employment law cases

  TUPE transfers: "no reason in law" why transferee cannot discipline employee for pre-transfer misconduct

  This employment tribunal decision shows that there is nothing to stop a transferee from disciplining a transferred employee who is alleged to have committed misconduct before the transfer.

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  Employment law cases

  NHS trust ordered to pay over £100,000 to unfairly dismissed nurses

  This employment tribunal punished a large employer's failure to follow the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" by awarding a combined total of over £100,000 to two claimants who were unfairly dismissed.

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  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Joe Beeston, Kate Edminson, Rosie Kight and David Rintoul are associate solicitors and Iain Naylor is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings. They round up the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case of the week: Acas code applied to dismissal for breakdown in trust and confidence

  In DLA Piper's case of the week, Lund v St Edmund's School, Canterbury, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures should have been followed in a case where the reason for dismissal was stated to be for "some other substantial reason" (SOSR), but disciplinary proceedings ought to have been invoked.