Contravention of statutory duty/restriction dismissals

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• 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 Badara v Pulse Healthcare Ltd, concerning the employer's use of the Home Office checking service for evidence of the right to work.

• Unfair dismissal

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to include information on Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti, in which the Supreme Court considered the knowledge of the decision-maker in a dismissal.

• Letter inviting an employee disqualified from driving to a meeting to discuss the options available to them

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• 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 them.

• 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 their 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 their disqualification from driving.

• Letter inviting an employee dismissed because of their 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 their appeal against a decision to dismiss following their disqualification from driving.

• Letter informing an employee dismissed because of their 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 their appeal against dismissal following their disqualification from driving.

• 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.

• Dismissal of employee with no evidence of right to work in UK was fair

  Date:

  11 November 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  An employment tribunal has held that the employer fairly dismissed an employee who failed to produce evidence of his right to work in the UK.