"Bumped" employee not redundant

Article Abstract:

The British Employment Appeals Tribunal ruled in Church v. West Lancashire NHS Trust that an employee dismissed and replaced by someone whose different position was declared redundant was not himself redundant. Redundancy must, the tribunal ruled, relate to the work done by the dismissed employee himself. The Employment Appeals Tribunal thus finds that the statutory definition of a redundancy for either unfair dismissal or redundancy payments purposes does not include transferred redundancies.

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Seymour-Smith update

Article Abstract:

Industrial tribunals have diverse ways of handling unfair dismissal cases in the United Kingdom, varying from the decision of ex parte Seymour-Smith. In that case, a qualifying period of two years employment was invalidated. However, that Court of Appeal decision is on appeal to the House of Lords. Decisions of other tribunals are discussed, covering cases brought by fired workers who were employed less than two years.

Unfair labor practices

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White woman told to discriminate against black people was herself racially discriminated against

Article Abstract:

The British Court of Appeal's ruling in Weathersfield Ltd. v. Sargent held that by constructively dismissing a white employee who left employment with a vehicle rental company due to objection to its policy of not renting vehicles to blacks suffered from unlawful race discrimination. The company treated her less favorably than employees who did apply this policy, and the treatment was on racial grounds.

United Kingdom, Race discrimination

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