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- Date:
- 22 June 2018
- Type:
- News
A former Sainsbury's employee was unfairly dismissed after an investigation into whether he had committed an act of gross misconduct was not approached with an open mind, an employment tribunal has found.
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- Date:
- 21 June 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Consultant editor Darren Newman looks at a recent case in which the Court of Appeal had to consider if, in sharing information from a manager's desk diary, a trade union rep had acted outside the scope of trade union activities for the purposes of the automatically unfair dismissal protection afforded by s.152 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
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- Date:
- 21 June 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Morris v Metrolink RATP DEV Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that a trade union representative who retained confidential information related to a restructuring exercise was unfairly dismissed.
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- Date:
- 21 June 2018
- Type:
- Legal guidance
In 1978, in British Home Stores v Burchell, the Employment Appeal Tribunal outlined several factors that should be considered when deciding whether dismissal for misconduct was fair or unfair. On its 40th anniversary, Fieldfisher's James Medhurst discusses why the case remains relevant today.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on Kaur v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, in which the Court of Appeal gave guidance on the correct approach to "last straw" constructive dismissal cases.
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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Updated to include information on Mbubaegbu v Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, in which the EAT held that a summary dismissal was fair despite no single act of gross misconduct; and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v Haywood, concerning the date when a notice period begins.
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- Date:
- 31 May 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Mbubaegbu v Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the summary dismissal of a surgeon was fair where the trust had relied on a pattern of conduct, but there had been no single act amounting to gross misconduct.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.
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- Type:
- Policies and documents
Updated to highlight the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018, on this document.
