Dismissal for some other substantial reason

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• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Unfair dismissal

  Enhanced to include information on non-criminal conduct outside the workplace.

• Type:

  How to

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

  Updated to reflect that pending late applications to the EU settlement scheme can be checked using an online right to work check, where the employee has a digital certificate of application.

• Date:

  2 November 2021

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Furlough scheme and unfair dismissal: Employment tribunal round-up

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• Date:

  12 September 2021

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

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• Date:

  17 February 2020

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Age discrimination: Dismissed banker told "you're old and set in your ways"

  In Kirk v Citibank NA and others, an employment tribunal held that a senior banker who was dismissed following a redundancy process was subjected to direct age discrimination and unfairly dismissed.

• Date:

  3 September 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Podcast: Dismissal for poor attendance

  We discuss common issues associated with dismissal for long-term poor attendance recently highlighted in the EAT decision of Kelly v Royal Mail Group.

• Date:

  18 June 2019

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Disability discrimination: Dismissal for poor attendance was harsh but fair

  In Kelly v Royal Mail Group Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that a long-serving employee's dismissal for frequent absences in accordance with the employer's attendance policy was harsh but fair.

• Date:

  18 October 2018

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Dismissal for some other substantial reason was fair despite no warning

  In Hawkes v Ausin Group (UK) Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that the employer's failure to hold a meeting with a reservist employee, before making the decision to dismiss, did not make the dismissal for some other substantial reason unfair.

• Date:

  4 July 2018

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfair dismissal: Appeal could have established employee's right to work

  In Afzal v East London Pizza Ltd t/a Dominos Pizza, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an employee who was dismissed when he failed to produce evidence of his continuing right to work in the UK should have had the right to appeal.

• Date:

  1 June 2017

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Chris Cook is partner and Keely Rushmore senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.