In the recent case of London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham v Keable the Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld a decision that an employee was unfairly dismissed after a video of him expressing controversial views on Zionism went viral on social media.
In the recent case of Stott v Ralli Ltd the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that the dismissal of an employee was not an act of discrimination arising from disability.
In Daley v Vodafone Automotive Ltd the EAT held that an Employment Tribunal should have considered whether an employer’s failure to probe the impact of an employee’s depression and medication rendered the dismissal process unfair.
It has been some time coming but, finally, the legislators seem to be taking the issue of menopause and the impact it has on some women’s professional lives seriously.
In Fallahi v TWI Limited, the EAT held that in performance dismissal cases, Tribunals may only look behind final written warnings where they are “manifestly inappropriate”.