Employment Law Updates
Redundancy: The Need To Bump Employees
The Appeal Tribunal has issued a ruling which looks the extent to which a dismissal for redundancy will be unfair where the employer fails to consider “Bumping”. Bumping in a redundancy situation is the practice of redeploying a redundant employee to a role occupied by a second person, and making...
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Employment Law Updates
Disability and Potential Cancer
A problematic judgment last month from the Appeal Tribunal has been published concerning when a pre-cancerous growth should be treated as a disability. Many conditions have to be assessed in terms of their impact upon an employee before an employer can truly know whether the employee has a disability. Many...
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Employment Law Updates
Dismissal Of Pregnant Employee Was NOT Discriminatory
The Appeal Tribunal has handed down a judgement in a case where the employer dismissed a probationary employee only to discover afterwards she was pregnant. The employee sued for discrimination and claimed that because the dismissal was due to her absence, and highly emotional state, it “must have been obvious”...
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