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Dismissal of employee for working in second job while on sick leave was unfair. What?

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 27 2011

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that an employer’s dismissal of an employee for working in a second job while on sick leave from the first was unfair

Marriage discrimination at work

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 21 2011

Is it unlawful for an employer to treat an employee less favourably, not because she is married, but because she is married to a particular man?

To what extent are employees entitled to manifest their religious beliefs in the workplace?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 17 2013

On January 15, 2013 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave its ruling in Eweida & Ors v the United Kingdom. As was widely reported in the

Watch out if... you are using an existing body of employee representatives for redundancy consultation purposes

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 8 2013

You may find it does not have the necessary authority to consult, thus rendering the entire collective consultation process invalid. Any employer

How should employers treat previous warnings when deciding whether to dismiss?

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 13 2012

How would you deal with an employee who has a written warning on his file and then commits a further (but possibly different) act of misconduct?

Justice done or just seen to be done?

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 18 2011

This month, a faintly unsettling case about the importance of justice being seen to be done, seemingly regardless of whether it actually is

Ensure final written warnings are issued fairly especially if you want to rely on them later

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • United Kingdom
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  • March 24 2011

Most employers are aware of the need to tick all the relevant procedural boxes when it comes to taking a decision to dismiss - but how confident are you that your managers apply the same rigorous approach when issuing final written warnings?

UK Supreme Court warns employers about dismissing employees in breach of contract

  • Squire Sanders
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 23 2013

In Société Générale, London Branch v Geys the Supreme Court has made it clear that employers need to be very careful

No way back after premature dismissal letter

  • Squire Sanders Hammonds
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 27 2011

In the vast majority of cases it should be obvious whether an employee has been dismissed or resigned

Watch out if. On a TUPE transfer you acquire employees who are covered by a collective agreement

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • February 27 2013

You may find that you are bound by terms agreed by other people after you become the employer. In 2002 the London Borough of Lewisham's leisure