employment tribunal has decided that the instant dismissal of a care assistant working in a nursing home who refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 was not unfair dismissal or wrongful dismissal, and the interference with the worker’s Article 8 right to privacy was justified.
Was it unfair for an employer to refuse to furlough an employee and simply make them redundant?
Two recent employment tribunal cases have considered whether making redundancies during the operation of the furlough scheme amounted to unfair dismissal.
In one case,...
Dismissal of employee who refused to work over concerns of infecting his children was not unfair
We’re starting to see Employment Tribunal Judgments trickle through now on covid-19 issues.
A tribunal has found that the dismissal of an employee who told his...
Lorry driver sacked for not wearing a face mask in his cab was not unfairly dismissed.
In what I believe to be one of the first court or tribunal decisions about mask wearing at work, the East London Employment Tribunal determined that a lorry driver who was sacked because he refused to wear a face...