Resignation

New and updated

• Date:

  18 June 2008

  Type:

  Law reports

  Capita Health Solutions v British Broadcasting Corporation and another

  The Employment Appeal Tribunal has held that an employee who resigned after raising a grievance about a transfer, but agreed to work for the new employer for a limited period, had not validly objected to her transfer.

• Date:

  18 July 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  Termination of contract: An employee's apparent resignation was in fact a dismissal

  In Sandhu v Jan de Rijk Transport Ltd [2007] IRLR 519 CA the Court of Appeal held that when an employee negotiated severance terms and resigned during a meeting called without advance warning to effect his dismissal in circumstances where he had no time to reflect or seek advice, the only conclusion open to the tribunal as a matter of law was that he had been dismissed.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee tenders their resignation prior to the announcement of the closure of the business will they be entitled to redundancy compensation?

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee resigns after disciplinary proceedings have been commenced should the employer continue the disciplinary procedure?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where an employee resigns but does not work the required notice period, is the employer under any obligation to pay them for this period?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What options are open to the employer where an employee resigns but indicates that they will not work the full notice period?

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with a heat-of-the-moment resignation

  Practical guidance on dealing with heat-of-the-moment resignations, including whether or not an employee can withdraw or retract a resignation.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can an employee retract their resignation?

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Letter releasing an employee from their notice period

  A model letter to an employee who is resigning agreeing to release them from the requirement to serve out their full notice period.

• Date:

  1 March 2001

  Type:

  Law reports

  Male-male harassment

  A bar worker who was sexually harassed by his male manager over a 10-month period, and who resigned when his complaints to the club management were not investigated, was unlawfully discriminated against on grounds of sex, rules a Sheffield employment tribunal (Chair: G R Little) in Case No. 2800061/00.