Employment Notes
Tag: unfair dismissal
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UK: Unfair dismissal - 'virtual' employee teleworking from overseas for UK business can bring claim here
Employers should bear in mind the scope for employees working abroad to bring claims here, even where it has been the employee's choice to …
Asia: Comparing employment laws across the region
We asked our lawyers to tell us three need-to-know employment law facts in Singapore, Hong Kong, PRC, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Japan. The …
UK: Termination - dismissal for tweets from private account may be fair
It may be fair to dismiss an employee for posting offensive tweets on a personal Twitter account in the employee's own time, depending on the facts. In …
UK: Termination - need for careful drafting of dismissal letter highlighted
Employers should avoid attaching emotive labels when informing employees of the findings of disciplinary panels. The Court of Appeal in Brito-Babapulle v …
UK: Whistleblowing - normal jurisdictional test applies for unfair dismissal
The usual territorial limits for unfair dismissal claims apply to whistleblowing claims for automatically unfair dismissal or detriment, according to a …
UK: Constructive dismissal - claim not prevented by employee's prior repudiatory breach
The EAT has ruled that an employee who has committed a prior repudiatory breach can still bring a constructive unfair dismissal claim, in this case based …
UK: Territorial scope of employment law rights: employees based abroad struggle to show sufficient connection to GB
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the right to claim unfair dismissal only applies to employees working or based abroad if they can show …
UK: Key employment law changes in force 1 October 2014
Employment tribunals now have the power to order an employer who has breached equal pay law to carry out an equal pay audit and publish the audit on …
UK: Appeal news - tribunal fees, unfair dismissal compensation cap, retirement age
UNISON has been granted permission to appeal to the Court of Appeal in its judicial review application challenging the introduction of tribunal fees, …
UK: TUPE - Court of Appeal upholds ruling that harmonisation dismissals unfair
The Court of Appeal has upheld the EAT's ruling that dismissing employees who refused to accept harmonised employment terms following a TUPE transfer …
UK: Disciplinaries - use of external consultants
Employers faced with disciplining a senior employee, or those with small workforces, may wish to use an external adviser for part of the disciplinary …
UK: Tribunals - new compensation limits from April 2014
From 6 April 2014, the cap on the unfair dismissal compensatory award will increase from £74,200 to £76,574 and the cap on weekly pay (used to calculate …
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