Dismissal for some other substantial reason

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• Unfair dismissal

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the increase in compensation limits in cases of unfair dismissal, effective from 6 April 2019.

• Dismissal for some other substantial reason was fair despite no warning

  Date:

  18 October 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• 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: Appeal could have established employee's right to work

  Date:

  4 July 2018

  Type:

  Law reports

  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.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 June 2017

  Type:

  Law reports

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

• Unfair dismissal: Uplift in compensation under Acas code not applicable in "some other substantial reason" case

  Date:

  24 October 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  In Phoenix House Ltd v Stockman and another [2016] IRLR 848 EAT, the EAT held that, while the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" did have some application to elements of a "some other substantial reason" dismissal, it was not appropriate to apply the uplift in compensation for unfair dismissal in such a case.

• Acas code does not extend to dismissal for breakdown in working relationships

  Date:

  29 June 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the "Acas code of practice on disciplinary and grievance procedures" does not apply to dismissals for some other substantial reason (SOSR) due to a breakdown in working relationships.

• Case round-up

  Date:

  1 June 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Beth Staniland is a trainee solicitor, and Emma Cousins, Ciara Jenkins, Iain Naylor and Lucy Sorell are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.

• The trust and confidence mantra: case round-up for NHS employers

  Date:

  15 October 2015

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Capsticks Solicitors highlight some of the case law that NHS employers should take into account before referring to the loss of trust and confidence as a reason for dismissal.

• "Some other substantial reason" dismissal was fair when client refused to have employee back on site

  Date:

  13 October 2015

  Type:

  Law reports

  An unfair dismissal tribunal case has illustrated a model response from an employer faced with a client's refusal to have an employee back on its site.