EAT Unfair Dismissal : Reasonableness of Dismissal – Unfair dismissal. The claimant was employed as office manager by the respondent. Suspicions arose in the mind of one of the directors of the respondent that the claimant was working elsewhere while claiming to be off sick. An investigation of that and of insubordination by the claimant was carried out and he was dismissed. He appealed and the dismissal was upheld. They ET found the dismissal unfair as the disciplinary process was chaired by the director who had lost faith in the claimant. The appeal did not cure that as it was superficial. The respondent argued that the ET had substituted its own view for that of the respondent.
Held: appeal refused. The ET found that the process was unfair as it was entitled to do.
Stacey HL
[2015] UKEAT 0022 – 14 – 2402
Bailii
England and Wales
Employment
Updated: 01 January 2022; Ref: scu.549116
