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- Date:
- 3 December 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A dismissal for fighting at a Christmas party involving individuals who attempt to play down the seriousness of the incident can be fair, as this case shows.
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- Date:
- 1 December 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamentenios are partners and Melissa Powys-Rogrigues, Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 26 November 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A harsh dismissal is not necessarily an unfair dismissal, as the claimant in this case found out.
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- Date:
- 26 November 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A harsh dismissal is not necessarily an unfair dismissal, as the claimant in this case found out.
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- Date:
- 14 November 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case was entitled to take a stern view of an employee abusing a position of trust to sleep during working hours.
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- Date:
- 1 November 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Carly Mather, Lydia Newman and Amy Ross-Sercombe are associates and Amanda Steadman is a professional support lawyer at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 18 July 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision that OFCOM was entitled, in dismissing an employee, to rely on an official disclosure that he presented a risk to children and consider the potential reputational damage if the allegations against him were true.
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- Date:
- 1 July 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Georgina Kyriacou and David Malamatenios are partners and Sandra Martins, Colin Makin and Krishna Santra are associates at Colman Coyle Solicitors. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 16 May 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has affirmed the employment tribunal's decision that an employee who was unfairly dismissed because the employer believed his prison sentence frustrated his contract of employment was guilty of contributory conduct.
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- Date:
- 26 April 2012
- Type:
- Employment law cases
A Northern Ireland industrial tribunal has provided a useful example for employers of circumstances in which it can be fair to dismiss an employee for offensive comments made about a work colleague on Facebook.