Managing employees/workers
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that, where there is no express term in a contract of employment that the employer will pay the employee for any accrued but untaken flexitime on his or her departure, there is no need to imply such a term into the contract.
The Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed with an employment tribunal that emails sent by the claimant taken together were capable of amounting to qualifying disclosures, even though the emails were sent to different individuals in different departments.
In this case, a charity fairly dismissed two whistleblowing employees for the manner in which they had raised their concerns.
In DLA Piper's latest case report, the Employment Appeal Tribunal examined the TUPE provisions that mean that employees do not automatically transfer where the transferor is "under the supervision of an insolvency practitioner".
The Supreme Court has restored the High Court decision granting a doctor an injunction to prevent an NHS trust from continuing flawed disciplinary action against her without first restarting and completing an investigation under its disciplinary policy.
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