Tribunal update: Dismissal of headteacher who failed to disclose association with convicted sex offender

XpertHR provides a summary and the full transcript of two interesting recent employment tribunal rulings involving:

• a headteacher who was dismissed after failing to disclose her association with a convicted sex offender; and
• a teacher who was dismissed following her son's criminal conviction. 

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Also

In the employment tribunals Access the XpertHR archive of tribunal decisions, as well as longer round-ups of cases on a particular topic. Other tribunal decisions reported in March 2013 involve:

• a chef who claimed that the brothers who ran a restaurant in which he worked discriminated against him because of his caste; and
• a male firefighter's attempt to claim sex discrimination after being required to cut his hair short. 

Employment tribunal decisions 04.03.13 to 10.03.13 A round-up of links to stories about employment tribunal rulings reported in the week beginning 4 March 2013, including an employment tribunal finding that a bagpipes instructor who taught part time at an independent school in Scotland is self-employed and not an employee.