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- Date:
- 10 May 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In this test case, the employment tribunal found that an NHS trust had unlawfully amended its pay progression policy to provide that staff would be denied a pay rise if their sickness absence reached a certain level.
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- Date:
- 9 May 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In the wake of the employment tribunal decisions in Michalak v Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Browne v Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, in which former employees were awarded compensation of nearly £4.5 million and £1 million respectively, these five cases address various employment disputes that arose in the NHS.
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- Date:
- 26 March 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
The Court of Appeal has held that the employer was justified in dismissing a senior member of staff, who had been at risk of redundancy for some time, before he reached the age of 50 to avoid him getting a pension "windfall". However, it stressed that this case has unusual facts and it is not opening the door for employers to time a reorganisation solely to prevent an employee from qualifying for enhanced pension rights.
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- Date:
- 22 February 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
A Court of Appeal judge has taken the unusual step of criticising employers that are too quick to suspend employees accused of wrongdoing, after an NHS trust suspended and reported to the police two long-serving nurses who were accused of using inappropriate methods to restrain a violent patient.
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- Date:
- 11 January 2012
- Type:
- Law reports
In this case, the employment tribunal awarded an NHS worker, who was dismissed from his senior position in the NHS, close to £1m for race discrimination, despite the tribunal's refusal to increase the award for future loss of earnings on the basis of the worker's argument that he might have been promoted before he retired.
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- Date:
- 16 December 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
This employment tribunal has awarded a former NHS doctor one of the largest ever discrimination payouts after she was subjected to a sustained campaign of sex and race discrimination. The tribunal found the NHS trust and three senior managers, one of whom was the HR director, jointly and severally liable for compensation.
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- Date:
- 13 December 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
In R (on the application of Puri) v Bradford Teaching Hospital NHS Trust [2011] IRLR 582 HC, the High Court held that rights under art.6 of the European Convention on Human Rights were not engaged in respect of the composition of disciplinary and appeal panels determining disciplinary action against a doctor. In the circumstances of the case, the hearings were not determining the doctor's ability to practise his profession, but merely his ability to remain in a particular post.
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- Date:
- 24 November 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
This week's case of the week, provided by DLA Piper, covers disciplinary procedings.
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- Date:
- 6 October 2011
- Type:
- Law reports
The NHS trust in this case unfairly treated two relatively minor criminal convictions as an adequate reason to dismiss a worker, in a case that is a cautionary tale for employers that treat a criminal conviction as an automatic reason for dismissal.
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- FAQs
