What is classed as an automatic unfair dismissal?
What is an automatic unfair dismissal? When considering a claim for unfair dismissal, the Employment Tribunal will follow a certain legal protocol decide whether there [...]
August 2018
Can I dismiss someone if they aren’t able to do their job due to health reasons?
Can I dismiss someone if they aren’t able to do their job due to health reasons? Yes, you are able to consider dismissing members of [...]
June 2018
Pimlico Plumber employee wins worker’s rights case in Supreme Court
Pimlico Plumber employee wins worker’s rights case in Supreme Court Despite having signed documentation to confirm he was self-employed and paying his own tax and [...]
June 2017
Misconduct for an Office Mug
Misconduct for an Office Mug Employers have been handed a useful message in relation to bullying and harassment claims and unfair dismissals in a recent [...]
Can you drug test your employees?
Can you drug test your employees? Where an employer’s operations rely on safety sensitive procedures – in the transport or energy industries, for example – [...]
March 2017
When inaction leads to Gross Misconduct
‘Gross misconduct’ is usually used to describe an act by an employee that is so serious it affects the employment relationship to the extent that the employer cannot allow [...]
November 2016
Bringing the Employer into Disrepute
Bringing the Employer into Disrepute Employees can at times be charged with being a representative of their employer even when they are not at [...]
July 2016
Managing Behaviour Outside of Work
The public disruption between England and Russia fans in the early stages of the Euro 2016 championship – where fans’ faces were sprawled all over the news engaging in [...]
June 2016
Constructive Dismissal? But he resigned…
‘Constructive dismissal’ is a misleading name for the concept it defines. There is no actual dismissal by the employer, yet the employee is entitled to consider themselves as being [...]
April 2015
The myth of two-years continuous service
Employers frequently ask me the following two questions: If an employee has less than two year’s service, can I dismiss them without following formal procedure? Will the employee be [...]