Contravention of statutory duty/restriction dismissals

New and updated

• Driving disqualifications: New model letters on redeployment or dismissal

  Date:

  20 September 2018

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  XpertHR's Policies and documents tool has been enhanced with the addition of six new model letters covering the redeployment or dismissal of an employee who is disqualified from driving where this forms a part of his or her job duties.

• Letter inviting an employee disqualified from driving to a meeting to discuss the options available to him or her

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to invite an employee disqualified from driving to a meeting to discuss the options available to him or her.

• Letter offering redeployment to an employee following a disqualification from driving meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to offer redeployment to an employee who has been disqualified from driving following a meeting at which you have discussed this with him or her.

• Letter dismissing an employee who has refused to be redeployed following a disqualification from driving meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to dismiss an employee who has been offered redeployment following his or her disqualification from driving, but who refuses that offer.

• Letter dismissing an employee following a disqualification from driving meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to confirm an employee's dismissal following a meeting to discuss his or her disqualification from driving.

• Letter inviting an employee dismissed because of his or her disqualification from driving to attend a dismissal appeal hearing

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to invite an employee to an appeal hearing to consider his or her appeal against a decision to dismiss following his or her disqualification from driving.

• Letter informing an employee dismissed because of his or her disqualification from driving of the outcome of the dismissal appeal hearing

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  A model letter to inform an employee of the outcome of his or her appeal against dismissal following his or her disqualification from driving.

• Unfair dismissal

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, concerning the employer's refusal to postpone a disciplinary hearing to allow the employee to be accompanied.

• How to deal with an employee who no longer has the right to work in the UK

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include information on Afzal v East London Pizza Ltd t/a Dominos Pizza, concerning the right of appeal against dismissal following the employee's failure to produce evidence of his right to work.

• Unfair dismissal: Failure to provide right to work evidence did not make employment illegal

  Date:

  22 November 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has remitted to an employment tribunal the issue of whether or not a Jamaican national with the "right of abode" was fairly dismissed after he did not provide the required documentation during his employer's audit of its workforce's right to work in the UK.