Fire and rehire rules toughened up. Proposed changes to unfair dismissal laws will make a fire and rehire dismissals automatically unfair, unless the employer is in very dire financial circumstances. This stops short of a full ban, but the reality is that using fire and rehire or fire and re...
righted the wrongs of the earlier process and therefore the relationship between the parties had not been damaged to the extent necessary for the constructive dismissal claim. However, the EAT, following established authority, held that only the Respondent's conduct should be considered, a...
(EAT) has been considering the status of a list of issues in circumstances where an unrepresented claimant’s claim for discriminatory constructive dismissal had been included in their claim form but did not feature in the list of issues (which had been largely prepared by the respondent). In...
Trade unions have a statutory right of notice and governors must always act in accordance with employment law. The question of unfair dismissal figures too often in employment law to leave the operation of Clause 8 to chance. He had become well versed in employment law. He was well versed in...
Dismissal law in the United States: the past and present of at-will employment. Paper presented at the seminar on Comparative Labour Relations Systems: Dismissal Law, Spanish Judicial School, Barcelona.Stone, Katherine V.W. (2009), `Dismissal Law in the United States: The Past and Present of...
Now that Spring has sprung, early April 2024 sees the introduction of a number of important changes to employment laws in the UK. In summary, these include: Expansion of the existing right to request flexible working New rules for the calculation of h
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解析:Simon’s contract of employment states that he may be moved to other specified locations in the UK His dismissal following a refusal to move is dismissal for disobedience. If the reason for dismissal is that the employer ceases or intends to cease carrying on the business (or the local...
In spite of the political turmoil in the UK in 2022, the government did pick up a number of legislative priorities after the hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, we anticipate a number of developments in employment law in the year ahead. In this article, we summaris...
went on to comment that a dismissal based on the Claimant's misrepresentations alone (when questioned about the expenses) would also have fallen within the band of reasonable responses, highlighting how significant an employee's conduct during any investigation may be to the outcome. (Mr S...