An employee does not need two years’ service to claim unfair dismissal if the reason for the dismissal is that he or she has made a public interest disclosure. One of the difficulties for employers is that an employee who makes disclosures of alleged wrongdoing may also be a difficult colleague to work with –…
When an employee is accused of serious misconduct, it may be appropriate for him or her to be suspended while an investigation takes place. This may be necessary to protect the business, or the integrity of the investigation. However, while an employer may be at pains to stress that the suspension does not indicate any…
Direct discrimination involves treating an employee less favourably ‘because of a protected characteristic’. The word ‘a’ is doing a lot of work in that definition because it makes it clear that the protected characteristic need not actually apply to the employee. An employer who rejects a job application, in the mistaken belief that the applicant…