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- Date:
- 1 May 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Kirsti Laird is senior associate at Charles Russell Speechlys. She rounds up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 20 April 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Court of Appeal has held that the employer was not required to match each category of gross misconduct to each allegation
and that how the conduct was eventually categorised was a matter for the decision-maker after all the evidence had been adduced.
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- Date:
- 1 April 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
Chris Cook is a partner and Keely Rushmore is a senior associate at SA Law. They round up the latest rulings.
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- Date:
- 13 January 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the dismissal of an employee for physical violence was unfair because the employer failed to have regard to all the surrounding circumstances and the employee's exemplary disciplinary record over 42 years' service.
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- Date:
- 10 January 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This tribunal decision concerns a long-serving employee who was dismissed for making derogatory comments about his colleagues and his employer that he had posted on Twitter up to three years previously.
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- Date:
- 9 January 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the dismissal of a teacher for showing an 18-rated film to a class of vulnerable 15- and 16-year-olds amounted to unfavourable treatment arising from his disability and was not justified.
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- Date:
- 1 January 2017
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Khan v Stripestar Ltd EAT/0022/15, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was entitled to find that a dismissal was fair despite a wholly defective and unfair initial disciplinary hearing, because the subsequent internal appeal cured the defects earlier in the process.
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- Date:
- 17 November 2016
- Type:
- Employment law cases
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that where an employee is dismissed for misconduct following an earlier warning that the tribunal has found to be manifestly inappropriate, the tribunal must examine the weight the employer attached to that warning in deciding whether or not the decision to dismiss was within the range of reasonable responses.
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- Date:
- 7 November 2016
- Type:
- Employment law cases
This employment tribunal held that an employer fairly dismissed an employee who refused to do overtime as required under her contract of employment and whose protests at being asked to do so caused discontent among her fellow workers.
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- Date:
- 1 November 2016
- Type:
- Employment law cases
In Theedom v Nourish Trading Ltd (t/a CSP Recruitment) and another [2016] IRLR 866 HC, the High Court dismissed an employee's libel claim in respect of emails sent by his employer about his misconduct.