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- Date:
- 15 May 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that an employer was not obliged to put the disciplinary process on hold until the employee's grievance had been investigated.
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- Date:
- 5 May 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has revisited the issue of warnings and confirmed that a warning given in bad faith cannot be relied on to justify a dismissal.
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- Date:
- 10 April 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that a dismissal was procedurally unfair because the chair of the disciplinary panel had no experience or training in conducting disciplinary hearings. This led to the disciplinary panel misapplying the disciplinary procedure, and in these circumstances, the EAT found the dismissal was also substantively unfair.
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- Date:
- 30 March 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A bus driver has been awarded nearly £84,000 after his employer failed to investigate his claim that traces of cocaine picked up on a mouth swab during a drug test were the result of contamination on his hands from passengers' banknotes.
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- Date:
- 27 February 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that it was reasonable for the employer not to carry out a detailed investigation into an employee's explanations for unusually high travel expense claims as the employer had obtained sufficient evidence to decide that the employee's explanations were implausible.
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- Date:
- 17 February 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that where an internal appeal is successful, the contract of employment is automatically revived with retrospective effect.
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- Date:
- 27 January 2015
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered the misuse of Twitter by an employee for the first time. The decision highlights the importance of having a robust policy in place relating to the use of social media at work.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this tribunal decision, the claimant argued that he was unfairly dismissed for taking appropriate steps to protect himself from serious and imminent danger.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this tribunal decision, an employee's summary dismissal for a single, serious breach of health and safety rules was held to be fair and non-discriminatory.
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- Date:
- 12 May 2014
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In DLA Piper's case of the week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered the case of an employee who was dismissed after testing positive for cannabis.