Premier Foods Plc v Garner: EAT 20 Mar 2007

EAT Unfair Dismissal – Reasonableness of dismissal; Procedural fairness/automatically unfair dismissal
Wide-ranging grounds of appeal concerning the standard DDP, automatic unfair dismissal, unfair dismissal and section 98A(2). No error of law in the Tribunal’s reasons. In particular, Tribunal entitled to conclude that where the employer, having decided to impose a final written warning and not to dismiss the employee, later again contemplated dismissing the employee, it should again have complied with the standard DDP.

Judges:

His Honour Judge Richardson

Citations:

[2007] UKEAT 0389 – 06 – 2003, UKEAT/0389/06

Links:

Bailii, EATn

Citing:

CitedAlexander and Hatherley v Bridgen Enterprises Ltd EAT 12-Apr-2006
The company made selections for redundancy, but failed to give the appellants information about how the scoring system had resulted in the figures allocated. The calculations left their representative unable to challenge them on appeal. The . .
CitedJ Sainsbury Ltd v Hitt; Orse Sainsburys Supermarkets Limited v Hitt CA 18-Oct-2002
Reasobaleness of Investigation Judged Objectively
The employer appealed against a decision that it had unfairly dismissed the respondent. The majority of the Employment Tribunal had decided that the employers had not carried out a reasonable investigation into the employee’s alleged misconduct . .
CitedShergold v Fieldway Medical Centre EAT 5-Dec-2005
The claimant had submitted a grievance complaining in general terms of the way in which she had been treated by a manager. She did not, however, refer to a particular incident relied on in her pleading as one of the two ‘last straw’ incidents that . .
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