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Automatic unfair dismissal Main or principal reason test Case Secure Care UK Ltd v Mott (2022) Morning Star, January 4, EAT Facts M was...
Automatic unfair dismissal Main or principal reason test Case Secure Care UK Ltd v Mott (2022) Morning Star, January 4, EAT Facts M was...
UNFAIR DISMISSAL Gross misconduct Case Hope v British Medical Association EA-2021-000187-JOJ Facts H, an employee of BMA, brought a...
SUPREME COURT Breach of embargo Contempt of court Case Attorney General v Crosland [2021] UKSC 15, Supreme Court Facts In May 2021...
GPT-3 is a piece of software that can predict what the next word will be in the specific text. It can repeatedly do that, to the point...
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there...
Regulators, investors and the public are increasingly worried about the carbon footprint left by crypto mining activities. Searches for...
Case management decision Access to documents Case Kular v Atos IT Services UK Ltd (2021) UKEAT 0101/20/2901, Employment Appeal Tribunal...
Disability Disabled workers may be selected for redundancy because of the employer’s failure to make reasonable adjustments to allow for...
Pregnancy/maternity dismissals Redundancy dismissal because of pregnancy or maternity is automatically unfair. No minimum qualifying...
Agreed procedures Jackson v General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Co Ltd [1976] IRLR 338, EAT:The meaning of agreed procedure, relating...
Unfair selection · The employer is under a duty to choose a fair pool from which to select redundant workers. Fulcrum Pharma...
Elements of consultation Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey...
DAMAGES Lost years of earnings Case Head v Culver Heating Co Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 34 Facts H was the managing director of EMSL, his own...
SECTION 1 Redundancy, like much of employment law, is an increasingly complex concept. Its legal definition often bears little...
· Automatically unfair dismissal for specified reasons · No genuine redundancy situation · Failure to consult · ...
SHORT-TERM WORK & LAY-OFFS Temporary Lay-Offs Workers can claim statutory redundancy pay that they are eligible for and have been...
Suitable Alternative Employment Unreasonable refusal of suitable alternative employment results in loss of statutory redundancy pay. S....
Source: section 135, ERA: employee has basic right to redundancy payment Those excluded from payments: · Independent contractors · ...
Closure of the workplace · An employee is dismissed for redundancy if it is attributable wholly or mainly to the fact that the...
The use of the word “fascism” has become so debased that it is now virtually meaningless. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines...