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Constructive dismissal

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  • Date:
    1 January 2001
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Macfarlane and another v Glasgow City Council

    In Macfarlane and another v Glasgow City Council [2001] IRLR 7 EAT, the EAT held that, despite a clause in the worker's contract expressly entitling the worker to substitute a replacement to do the work if unable to attend work, the worker was deemed to be an employee rather than a sub-contractor.

  • Date:
    31 December 2000
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd

    In Baker v Securicor Omega Express Ltd [2000] IRLB 633 EAT, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the employer had been in breach of contact in imposing a change from weekly to monthly pay, and the employee had been constructively dismissed. However, the dismissal was fair for some other substantial reason.

  • Date:
    15 April 2000
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    References: Previously undisclosed complaints in reference gave rise to constructive dismissal

    Providing an employee's prospective employer with a reference that revealed several complaints made about the employee, of which she had been unaware, constituted a breach by her employer of the implied term of trust and confidence in her contract of employment, holds the EAT in TSB Bank plc v Harris.

  • Date:
    1 September 1997
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Jones v F Sirl & Son (Furnishers) Ltd

    In Jones v F Sirl & Son (Furnishers) Ltd [1997] IRLR 493 EAT, the EAT held that in deciding whether an employee left employment in consequence of a fundamental breach of contract by the employer, the industrial tribunal must determine whether the repudiatory breach was "the effective cause" of the resignation. It does not have to be the sole cause.

  • Date:
    1 August 1996
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Dismissal: Imposition of new terms amounted to express dismissal

    The unilateral imposition of a continuous rolling shift pattern in place of the traditional shifts previously worked by employees in accordance with their contracts amounted to an express dismissal of those employees, who reserved their right to complain of unfair dismissal even though they worked under the new system, holds the EAT in Alcan Extrusions v Yates and others.

  • Date:
    1 November 1995
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Trade union activities: Consent to recruit members did not bar criticism of employer

    In Bass Taverns Ltd v Burgess, the Court of Appeal holds that a shop steward who resigned after he was demoted for making disparaging remarks about the employer to trainee managers was unfairly constructively dismissed for taking part in trade union activities at an appropriate time.

  • Date:
    1 October 1994
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Dismissal: Imposition of new shift patterns was constructive dismissal

    In Interconnection Systems Ltd v Gibson, an employee was unfairly constructively dismissed when her employer imposed new shift patterns, and refused to accept that the domestic difficulties created by this change were a ground for considering transferring her to alternative work.

  • Date:
    1 July 1994
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Dismissal: Threat of termination was constructive dismissal

    An employee who resigned when her employer threatened to terminate her contract with due notice if she refused to agree to a change in her shift pattern was constructively dismissed, rules the EAT in Greenaway Harrison Ltd v Wiles.

  • Date:
    1 May 1990
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew

    In Prestwick Circuits Ltd v McAndrew [1990] IRLR 191 CS, the Court of Session held that the implied right to order a transfer from one place of employment to another must be subject to the implied qualification that reasonable notice must be given in all the circumstances of the case.

  • Date:
    24 January 1989
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal remedies: Increase in hours leads to unfair constructive dismissal

    A unilateral increase in hours of work without consultation constituted a breach of contract entitling employees to resign and claim constructive dismissal, the EAT holds in Humphreys & Glasgow Ltd v Broom and Holt*.