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- Date:
- 28 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee who was dismissed for refusing to work because of health and safety concerns, even though his employer genuinely believed that there was no danger, could be automatically unfairly dismissed.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case involves an employee whose unfair dismissal was due to her asserting statutory rights regarding her pay.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Employees are protected against detriment and dismissal for taking time off for dependants, as the employer in this case found to its cost.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case concerns whether or not an employee, who had less than one year's service, was unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Employees with less than one year's service can still claim unfair dismissal in certain circumstances, as the employer in this case found to its cost.
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- Date:
- 19 January 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Wood v Caledon Social Club Ltd and another EAT/0528/09, the EAT held that a TUPE transfer arose even though the business had temporarily ceased operating at the time of the transfer.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
A dismissal where the reason (or the principal reason) is an employee's jury service will be automatically unfair, regardless of the employee's length of service, as this case demonstrates.
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- Type:
- Employment law cases
Compensation for a successful whistleblowing claim is unlimited, as the employer in this case found to its cost.