Dismissal

As the result of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU sank in during July, employers began looking...

Your annual summer round-up of the most important employment law cases 2016 has seen so far, and those still to come…

An employment tribunal held that an employee was fairly dismissed after using a racist term at work, despite his arguments...

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a Christian employee, dismissed for not divorcing her husband when he was...

A mistake by a private security company during a training exercise led to a fake bomb being left in a...

An employment tribunal rejected an unfair dismissal claim by a line manager who was sacked when he refused to take...

An employment tribunal has held that it was discrimination arising from disability for an employee with mental health problems to...

An employment tribunal has held that a director’s comment to an employee with depression that “everyone gets depressed sometimes, you...

How does HR manage employees whose absence patterns or other evidence suggest they are malingerers? Catharine Cooksley looks at recent...

An employee on sick leave who was found to have exaggerated the effects of an injury caused by a slip...

Employers in the Republic of Ireland have to pay a contribution of employees’ earnings to a national training fund and...

Some employees have an automatic right to a written statement of reasons for dismissal, others are entitled only if they...

An employment tribunal held that an employee on a final warning was fairly dismissed after becoming aggressive during a meeting...

Managing poor performance is rarely simple or swift, particularly for those employers with detailed capability procedures in place. Huw Cooke...

There is nothing more frustrating for employers than discovering that an employee dismissed for blatant misconduct has an arguable claim...