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Unfair dismissal: employers need medical opinion before relying on evidence suggesting illness is fake

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 6 2011

Where covertly filmed evidence would suggest to a lay person that an employee is feigning illness, employers should not take disciplinary action without first obtaining a medical opinion on whether the evidence supports this view

Compromise agreements: public sector employer's payment of more than potential litigation award not ultra vires

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 9 2010

Overturning a High Court ruling, the Court of Appeal has decided that an NHS Trust's termination payment was not ultra vires even though it exceeded the maximum the employee could be awarded had she gone to tribunal

Working time: EU law allows employees to reclaim holiday if they are ill

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • October 2 2009

A worker who is sick during statutory holiday should be allowed under EU law to take the holiday at a later date, if necessary in the following holiday year, according to the ECJ

Misrepresentation: drafting of pre-employment questionnaire is key

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 5 2009

An employer cannot claim for loss caused by an employee's mental illness merely because the employee fails to mention a history of mental illness at the recruitment stage