Lord Reid said that that statutory provisions for claims for unfair dismissal ‘must be construed in a broad and reasonable way so that legal technicalities shall not prevail against industrial realities and common sense’
The idea of discrimination connotes a comparison.
Judges:
Lord Reid
Citations:
[1974] 1 WLR 89, [1974] 1 All ER 229
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – West Midlands Co-operative Society v Tipton HL 1986
All information available to an employer at the date of the termination of the employment relationship is relevant when considering the fairness of dismissal, and also any information becoming available during the course of, for example, an internal . .
Cited – Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti SC 27-Nov-2019
The employee was a whistleblower, but her manager in response bullied her and dismissed her on the grounds of alleged poor performance. J suffered stress and was away from work and unable to defend herself. The decision maker, acting honestly . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Employment, Discrimination
Updated: 11 September 2022; Ref: scu.645434
