Zinda v Ark Schools: EAT 14 Nov 2014

EAT Practice and Procedure : Compromise – A compromise agreement containing a term (clause 5(a)) that: ‘The Employer agrees not directly or indirectly to publish or otherwise make any statement in respect of you which is intended to or might reasonably be expected to damage your reputation or be detrimental to or otherwise critical of you’ is not void because the employer intends to and does report the dismissal of an employee, a teacher, for gross misconduct to the Independent Safeguarding Authority as required by the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, section 6.

Supperstone J
[2014] UKEAT 0251 – 14 – 1411
Bailii
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 6
England and Wales

Employment

Updated: 27 December 2021; Ref: scu.541960