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- Date:
- 1 July 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Claire Benson is managing associate and Helen Corbett, Sinead Jones, Helen Ward and Tori O'Neil are associates at Addleshaw Goddard LLP. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 23 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case involves an employer's use of handwriting experts to ascertain which employee was responsible for graffiti in its factory toilets.
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- Date:
- 15 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case did not have absolute proof that the employee had committed misconduct, but carried out a thorough investigation that showed that it was highly likely that he had.
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- Date:
- 8 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case involves an employer that, rather than deal with problems with an employee's behaviour and attitude by giving him a series of warnings, used them as an excuse to dismiss him.
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- Date:
- 2 June 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case involves a common problem for employers: an employee suspected of abusing his or her holiday entitlement.
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- Date:
- 30 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case ran into trouble when it dismissed an employee after he refused to work on some days during the company's annual shutdown, because it did not make clear that the outcome of his refusal could be dismissal.
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- Date:
- 18 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the employer's diligent and persistent disciplinary investigation led to success at the employment tribunal.
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- Date:
- 17 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, an employee was torn between disobeying his superior and carrying out an instruction from him that breached health and safety rules.
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- Date:
- 11 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The employer in this case just about got away with using secretly recorded CCTV footage to dismiss five employees who were caught urinating on company property on numerous occasions, in a two-to-one majority decision in the employment tribunal.
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- Date:
- 7 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An employer that dismisses an employee on an allegation of fraudulently claiming to be sick needs clear evidence, as this case demonstrates.