Dismissal

Unfair dismissals are the most common category of claims in the Employment Tribunal. There are five categories of reason for a fair dismissal and where an employer fails to dismiss on one of those grounds, then an Employment Tribunal could consider the dismissal is unfair. At the moment, a minimum one year service is needed to bring an unfair dismissal claim. There are, however, a number of other claims which employees can bring without having had a full year’s service and most of those claims don’t have a particular service requirement.

If you’ve “blown the whistle” or complained about discrimination or harassment and have been victimised and dismissed, you may well have a claim regardless of your length of service. These are often complicated claims but some have no cap to the level of damages and it’s worth your while getting our advice.

Terry Falcao

Head of Employment

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Terry is Head of Employment at Stephens Scown LLP and has extensive experience of a wide range of commercial employment work, in both the public and private sector.

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Laura McFadyen

Associate

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Laura specialises in employment law with a particular interest in the issues arising from buying and selling businesses.

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Marie Ashton

Head of HR Express

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Marie has more than 5 years of experience in advising employers on a range of employment and HR issues including grievance and disciplinary procedures, sickness absence, performance management, redundancies and reorganisations.

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