Capability or qualifications dismissals

New and updated

• Date:

  1 March 2004

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case digest

  Hilary Slater, consultant with Cobbetts solicitors, provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on discrimination.

• Date:

  5 December 2003

  Type:

  Law reports

  Unfair dismissal: Cause of illness is relevant to fairness of ill-health dismissal

  In Frewin v Consignia plc the EAT holds that in considering the fairness of a dismissal on the ground of incapacity, an employment tribunal is entitled to take into account the fact that the incapacity was caused by the employer.

• Date:

  1 September 2003

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Our resident experts at Pinsent Curtis Biddle bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is an employee who has exhausted their sick pay entitled to notice pay if dismissed on grounds of ill health?

• Date:

  10 December 2002

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up: whistleblowing, GOQs and ill-health termination

  This week's case round-up by Eversheds covers whistleblowing, GOQs and ill-health termination.

• Date:

  9 December 2002

  Type:

  Law reports

  Mitigation of loss: Refusing re-employment offer was a failure to mitigate loss

  In Wilding v British Telecommunications plc, the Court of Appeal upholds a decision by an employment tribunal that, by refusing an offer of part-time re-employment, an employee who had been unfairly dismissed and discriminated against on the ground of his disability had thereby failed to mitigate his loss.

• Date:

  1 November 2002

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Our resident experts at Pinsent Curtis Biddle bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them

• Date:

  1 September 2002

  Type:

  Law reports

  Case round-up

  Our resident experts at Pinsent Curtis Biddle bring you a comprehensive update on all the latest decisions that could affect your organisation, and advice on what to do about them.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employer chooses not to provide any training can an employee dismissed for unsatisfactory job performance succeed in a claim for unfair dismissal?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it unlawful for an employer to dismiss an employee for incompetence?