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- Date:
- 5 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
An adequate investigation and a fair system of warnings are key to the successful defence of an unfair dismissal claim related to misconduct, as this case shows.
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- Date:
- 1 May 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Joanne Magill, associate, and Claire Benson and Ceri Hughes, managing associates, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 15 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's contract of employment was terminated by the transfer of pay in lieu of notice into his bank account, even though he did not know at the time that this had happened.
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- Date:
- 14 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, a Premier League football club unfairly sacked its football historian, who had supported the club for over 60 years.
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- Date:
- 1 April 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Rebekah Martin, Carly Mather, Kate Edminson and James Buckley, all associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 30 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, the employment tribunal held that an employer placed too much emphasis on an employee's "flippant" and "sarcastic" attitude during a disciplinary hearing and failed properly to consider the flaws in the evidence against him.
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- Date:
- 16 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This case concerns an employee whose "error of judgment" had disastrous consequences.
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- Date:
- 10 March 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a tribunal decision that an employee's dismissal was unfair because it was based on a confusing alcohol policy of which he was unaware.
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- Date:
- 24 February 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Where two employees are dismissed fairly for the same misconduct, can the reinstatement of one render the other's dismissal unfair?
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- Date:
- 15 February 2011
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In this case, an employment tribunal held that a manager's dismissal for a one-off mistake that could have had fatal consequences was fair.