A Tribunal has judged that a former NHS trust manager was unfairly dismissed and suffered race discrimination because the investigation into the incident was “fundamentally flawed”. Richard Hastings, an IT manager at King’s College NHS …
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The EAT has supported the view of the Tribunal in Hargreaves v Manchester Grammar that a dismissal for violent behaviour towards a pupil was fair. Mr Hargreaves had appealed to the EAT, contending that the …
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A Tribunal has found that an HMRC employee who felt unable to return to work after a contractor shouted a racist remark at him in a corridor was the victim of racial discrimination. The HMRC …
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The Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark £2m award in a whistleblowing case that saw directors sued for the first time for unfairly dismissing an employee. The earlier Tribunal and EAT decisions in favour …
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A civil servant who was dismissed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after he posted “racist and political” tweets from a personal social media account was unfairly dismissed, an Employment tribunal has found. …
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In the case of Talon Engineering Ltd v Smith, Mrs Smith, a long-serving employee of Talon Engineering Ltd sent ‘unprofessional’ emails to a contact. She also tried to hide some of these emails from her …
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