Employees have a right not to be unfairly dismissed from employment. Before dismissing an employee, employers need to make sure that they have a potentially fair reason.
The five potentially fair reasons for dismissal are: capability or qualifications; conduct; redundancy; where continued employment would contravene the law; and “some other substantial reason”.
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An employee who was sacked for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend after a workplace party tried unsuccessfully to claim sex discrimination....
An employment tribunal has given short shrift to a claim that a complaint about a line manager’s rudeness to a...
An employment tribunal has awarded compensation to the former employees of a BT subsidiary for the failure to carry out...
An employment tribunal has held that a female police officer who was required to attend an intensive firearms training course...
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld a decision limiting unfair dismissal compensation paid to the mayor of Liverpool, whose...
An employment tribunal award of £3.1 million has been given to a former banker who was forced out of her...
In DLA Piper’s latest case report, the Court of Appeal considered whether or not European law requires the provisions of...
Workplace pranks are harmless fun most of the time, but there are occasions when a practical joke in the workplace...
An employment tribunal has awarded a bus driver £84,000 for unfair dismissal after a drug test revealed traces of cocaine...
An employment tribunal has held that Greater Manchester Police committed sex discrimination against a female police officer when it amended...
An employment tribunal has rejected the age discrimination claims brought by two former cricket umpires, who were removed from their...
However changeable employment law may be, one thing you can rely on is that many of those employment law changes...
