Contract Of Employment – Oakwood Solicitors Legal Advice
Are you looking to terminate the contract of employment of an employee at your organisation within the UK?
Oakwood Solicitors has highly qualified and experienced legal professionals who could offer guidance on formal disciplinary and dismissal procedures.
As a business owner, its crucial any contract termination complies with all current UK employment legislation to avoid the risk of future repercussions.
Case study
An article published on 25 January 2013, by Pay and Benefits Magazine highlighted several recent employment tribunal cases including that of Spring v First Capital East Ltd All ER (D) 03 (Dec).
The article informs that “An employee who retired the day before he turned 65 contested that he was being retired because he was “a thorn in the company’s side”.
An employment tribunal ordered that you pay a deposit of œ250 in order to continue his claim that he was discriminated against on grounds of age.”
It goes on to say that “The employee was a bus driver. His employment had been terminated the day before he turned 65. The statutory requirements notice had been given and the proper procedure had been followed. The employee’s request to continue to work had been denied. The employer claimed that this was because of an oversupply of bus drivers due to push its being lost.”
In addition, article further explains to us that “The employee appealed to an employment tribunal claiming that he had been dismissed for a reason other than retirement or that the employer had committed an act of age discrimination. He cited that he had raised health and safety concerns with his management and union and had written a letter of complaint to his MP about the working conditions of London bus drivers.
“He claimed that his employer was using the legal mechanism available to retire employees at the age of 65, and was using that to retire employees who were thought to be a thorn in the company’s side.”
The article concludes the Employment Appeal Tribunal found- the tribunal judge had been entitled to conclude the employee had little prospect of providing evidence that he had been dismissed unfairly and that the appeal therefore failed.
WHAT TO DO NEXT
If you had a tribunal claim brought against your company for the termination of contract of employment, then our team can provide you legal advice.
You can call our employment and commercial law specialists who will provide robust legal representation for your firm to ensure the best interests of your business are protected during litigation proceedings.
The highly skilled professionals at Oakwood Solicitors could assist you with the mutual termination of contract of employment of an employee at your organisation within the UK by use of settlement agreements that achieves the best possible outcome available to your business; so make a no obligation call to our helpful advisers for more information on our services on: 0113 200 9720.
