DISMISSAL - 17.04.2024
Fairly dismissed for irretrievable relationship breakdown
The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that an employee was fairly dismissed due to a breakdown of trust and confidence in the working relationship, even though he received no written warning and wasn’t offered a right of appeal. Why was this?
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TIME OFF - 17.04.2024
How to deal with unauthorised absence
When an employee fails to report to work without permission and without any legitimate reason or explanation, it’s an unauthorised absence. What steps should you take to deal with it?
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SICKNESS ABSENCE - 08.04.2024
Managing dismissals for long-term sickness absence
If an employee’s long-term sickness absence starts to become protracted to the point where you’re contemplating their dismissal, how should you go about dealing with that?
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SUSPENSION - 08.04.2024
Suspension following gross misconduct allegations
The employee at Red Bull who accused its Formula 1 team principal, Christian Horner, of inappropriate behaviour has now been suspended for alleged dishonesty. Is it lawful to suspend an employee where there are gross misconduct allegations?
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TRIBUNALS - 08.04.2024
Increase to injury to feelings awards
Injury to feelings awards. In a successful discrimination (or harassment) claim, the employment tribunal has the power to make an additional award of compensation for injury to the claimant’s feelings. Where it does so, that award will fall into one of three “Vento bands” . Those bands have now been uprated to take account of inflation. ...
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TERMINATION PAY - 03.04.2024
Compensating a departing director or employee
A dispute in the boardroom has resulted in one of the directors resigning from the firm. A financial settlement has been agreed to prevent the departure becoming acrimonious. Can the company apply the £30,000 exemption to the payment?
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