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Whistleblowing and Automatic Unfair Dismissal

A dismissal will be automatically unfair if the main reason for the dismissal is the fact that the employee has ‘blown the whistle’ on malpractice. The Supreme Court has recently decided that an employer was liable for automatic unfair dismissal even though the decision maker was unaware of the protected disclosures. In Royal Mail v… Read More

Tagged With: automatic unfair dismissal, Supreme Court, Unfair Dismissal, Whistleblowing

Breaking News…

The Supreme Court has today given a unanimous judgement that the Employment Tribunals Fees Order 2013 (which led to a 70% reduction in claims) is unlawful and will be quashed.  The Ministry of Justice then tweeted only a few hours after this judgement was announced this morning that, “the Government will take immediate steps to… Read More

Tagged With: Supreme Court, Tribunals Fees

Employment status – Supreme Court ruling

Employment status has been in the headlines a lot over the years and particularly this year as there was a Supreme Court ruling on it in the case of Auto-Clenz Limited v Belcher and Others (2011)  http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2011/41.html. In the case of AutoClenz, the Court of Appeal held in 2009 that the individuals in that case… Read More

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