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Employment law brief: 7 March 2019

07 March 2019 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7831 / Categories: Features , Employment
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In this month’s employment brief, Ian Smith examines the long shadow cast by the infamous ‘gay cake case’ & takes a look at some exceptions to the unfair dismissal rule

  • Automatic unfair dismissal: a gap in the protection?
  • Automatic unfairness again: this time on a TUPE transfer.
  • Freedom to hold a belief—but whose belief?
  • What is ‘an email’?
  • Two cases this month have concerned the exception rather than the rule in unfair dismissal law: namely where the dismissal is automatically unfair because it comes into an especially protected category. Not only are these categories important in themselves, they are also (like patriotism for the scoundrel) the last refuge of the claimant without two years’ qualifying employment. The third case considered here shows clearly the effect of the Supreme Court decision in the Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and others [2018] UKSC 49, [2018] All ER (D) 43 (Oct) case. The fourth case raises the sort of question that lawyers just love : what is an email?

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    MOVERS & SHAKERS

    DWF—19 appointments

    DWF—19 appointments

    Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

    Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

    Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

    Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

    Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

    Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

    Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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