Unfair dismissal
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
A harsh dismissal is not necessarily an unfair dismissal, as the claimant in this case found out.
A harsh dismissal is not necessarily an unfair dismissal, as the claimant in this case found out.
The Court of Appeal has held that the "band of reasonable responses" test for determining unfair dismissal claims does not need to be modified where an employee's rights under art.8 of the European Convention on Human Rights are engaged as a result of his or her dismissal.
The employer in this case was entitled to take a stern view of an employee abusing a position of trust to sleep during working hours.
Carly Mather, Lydia Newman and Amy Ross-Sercombe are associates and Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
This employer was told by the police that a non-negotiable condition of retaining the licence for its nightclub business, without which it would have to close, was the removal of an employee who had allegedly poorly handled incidents of violent crime in the nightclub.
A table summarising the potentially fair reasons for dismissal.
A table setting out the automatically unfair reasons for selection for redundancy.
A table setting out the automatically unfair reasons for dismissal.
HR and legal information and guidance relating to unfair dismissal.