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UK: Constructive dismissal - claim not prevented by employee's prior repudiatory breach
The EAT has ruled that an employee who has committed a prior repudiatory breach can still bring a constructive unfair dismissal claim, in this case based …
UK: Termination - employees can be held to notice period and need not be paid if they refuse to work
The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court ruling that, if an employee leaves without giving contractual notice (save in constructive dismissal …
Australia: Termination clauses in senior executive contracts
The Supreme Court of Western Australia has awarded a Managing Director in excess of AUD$1.5 million in damages for wrongful dismissal. The decision …
Spain: 2012 Labour Market Reform declared constitutional
In a judgment dated 16 July 2014, the Spanish Constitutional Court rejected, by a large majority, an appeal lodged by the Parliament of Navarra in which …
Singapore: Court of Appeal confirms employer-friendly approach to constructive dismissal damages
In the recent decision of Wee Kim San Lawrence Bernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2014] SGCA 43 the Court of Appeal considered …
UK: Territorial scope of employment law rights: employees based abroad struggle to show sufficient connection to GB
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the right to claim unfair dismissal only applies to employees working or based abroad if they can show …
UK: Key employment law changes in force 1 October 2014
Employment tribunals now have the power to order an employer who has breached equal pay law to carry out an equal pay audit and publish the audit on …
UK: Termination - employees can be held to notice period and need not be paid if they refuse to work
Last year the Supreme Court ruled that, where an employer dismisses an employee with immediate effect in breach of the employment contract, the employee …
UK: Disciplinaries - no right to increase sanction on appeal unless express provision
An employer has no contractual right to increase a disciplinary sanction on appeal under a contractual disciplinary policy unless the policy expressly …
France: Temporary protection against dismissal for new fathers
The new law on equality between men and women, published in France on 5 August 2014 has introduced (amongst other things) protection for fathers, …
UK: Resignation without notice - deduction from pay lawful
The EAT has ruled that it was not an unenforceable penalty for a contract to include a clause deducting a payment equal to the salary for the period of …
France: Constructive dismissal cases – new changes in France which will radically speed up hearing dates in the Tribunal
With effect from 2 July 2014*, the French tribunal procedures in relation to constructive dismissal claims (prise d'acte) are amended with the effect of …
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