Dismissal for failure to return discriminatory

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  Lewis Woolf Griptight Ltd v Corfield [1997] IRLR 432 EAT (1 other report)

  • Maternity rights: Employment continued after expiry of maternity leave

    Date:

    1 August 1997

    In Lewis Woolf Griptight Ltd v Corfield the EAT upholds an industrial tribunal's decision that a woman's employment was terminated by dismissal, rather than by operation of statute, when because of illness she was unable to return to work four weeks after the notified date of her return from maternity leave, and her employer told her that it was neither required nor prepared to hold her job open for her.