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28.07.2010
Chris Quinn in successful unfair dismissal appeal establishing duty on employer to state reason for possible dismissal in clear terms >more
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30.06.2010
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25.06.2010
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News Details
| Chris Quinn in successful unfair dismissal appeal establishing duty on employer to state reason for possible dismissal in clear terms | ||
| 28.07.2010 | ||
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In a judgment handed down on 28th July 2010 but not yet transcribed, Celebi v Compass Group, the Employment Appeal Tribunal [HHJ McMullen QC, Baroness Drake and Mr Ezekiel] allowed an appeal by an employee who advanced the superficially straightforward proposition that before an individual can be dismissed fairly for theft she must be told in unequivocal terms that that is the charge against her. The Respondent employer contended that it was sufficient for the employer to have been told that she was responsible for the loss of the money in question. The EAT’s judgment is noteworthy in three respects: (i) it is authority for the proposition that a Tribunal should not seek to go behind an employer’s stated reasons for a dismissal; (ii) it declined to accept a submission advanced by the Respondent that it was common industrial practice to “lessen the blow” in such situations by using euphemisms for theft; and (iii) it extended that principles upon which it allowed the primary appeal by finding that for the purposes of the now defunct statutory procedures, the Step 1 letter should also have been explicit as to the charge being theft. A link to the transcript will be provided once this is available. |