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Misconduct dismissals

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  • Date:
    3 April 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: no obligation on employer to follow independent appeal panel

    In DLA Piper's case of the week, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered a case in which the employer was found to have fairly dismissed someone despite choosing not to follow the findings of an independent appeal panel.

  • Date:
    1 April 2014
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Neil Window is a trainee solicitor, Heather Marsh, Carly Mather, Associate and David Rintoul are associate solicitors, and Catherine Barker is managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    21 November 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: £15,000 for Portuguese care worker dismissed for single use of rude word

    A tribunal award of nearly £15,000 was the result of this employer's multiple failures when dismissing a Portuguese care worker with a poor grasp of English for the use of a single inappropriate word in the presence of a member of the public.

  • Date:
    7 November 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Energy supplier fairly dismissed employee recorded telling customer to "bugger off"

    A large energy supplier has successfully defended an employment tribunal claim that it unfairly dismissed a customer services adviser who commonly hung up on customers and was recorded telling one customer to "bugger off".

  • Date:
    7 November 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Fair dismissal of climbing instructor who "momentarily lost his cool" with customer

    An employee's inappropriate behaviour towards a customer can clearly be a fair reason for dismissal, as the unsuccessful claimant in this tribunal case found out.

  • Date:
    7 November 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal of bar worker who told customer to "shut up" during argument

    An employee's inappropriate behaviour towards a customer is not necessarily a fair reason for dismissal when the surrounding circumstances are taken into account, as the employer in this tribunal case found out.

  • Date:
    1 September 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    Joe Beeston, Kate Edminson, Rosie Kight and David Rintoul are associate solicitors and Iain Naylor is a trainee solicitor at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings. They round up the latest rulings.

  • Date:
    26 June 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Unfair dismissal: EAT considers required level of investigation into misconduct

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has reiterated the importance of employers carrying out a sufficiently thorough disciplinary investigation where there are allegations of criminal behaviour.

  • Date:
    1 May 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    "Over-authoritarian" manager should have been warned about possibility of dismissal

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal decision that a manager was unfairly dismissed for behaving in an "over-authoritarian manner" because he was not warned that a possible consequence of continuing to act in this way was dismissal.

  • Date:
    1 May 2013
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Case round-up

    David Malamatenios is a partner and Colin Makin, Linda Quinn, Krishna Santra and Sandra Martins are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.