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NLJ this week: Tesco, misconduct & restrictions on belief

18 October 2024
Issue: 8090 / Categories: Legal News , Employment , Tribunals , Terms&conditions , Discrimination
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It’s not often you get a Supreme Court decision in employment law, writes professor & barrister Ian Smith in this week’s NLJ

Smith, of Norwich Law School, UEA, dives into the issues of fire and rehire in the recent Tesco Stores v USDAW case, as well as three other recent cases for further exploration in his employment law brief.

Smith writes: ‘The judgment serves a useful function in approving the ‘PHI [permanent health insurance] cases’ (as we know and love them, holding that if extensive sickness cover is promised, the employer cannot later try to wriggle out of it) and confirming that the basic principle behind them can apply more generally.’

He also covers cases on the overlap between incapability and misconduct in unfair dismissal, where a charity worker threatened to punch someone in the head; restrictions on expression of religion or belief, where a teacher misgendered a pupil; and the question of whether a belief is worthy of respect, where an employee expressed the view that Muslims should be deported.

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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