Case report round-up: Redundancy scoring following transfer was not unfair

XpertHR's latest case reports cover:

• Unfair dismissal: Scoring employees from transferor and transferee separately in redundancy exercise did not lead to unfair dismissals In First Scottish Searching Services Ltd v McDine and another EATS/0051/10, the EAT held that, where a redundancy exercise was carried out by a transferee, post transfer, it was not unfair for it to have conducted the scoring of former employees of the transferor separately using former managers of the transferor. (Employment Review)
• Unfair dismissal: Tribunal correctly applied objective test of reasonableness In Fuller v London Borough of Brent [2011] IRLR 414 CA, the Court of Appeal held that the employment tribunal correctly applied the objective "band of reasonable responses of a reasonable employer" test in deciding that a misconduct dismissal was unfair. (Employment Review)

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