Covid-19: Health and safety dismissals – a tale of two cases

Irwin Mitchell LLP | July/August 2021 #222
Danielle Parsons and Rebecca Denvers compare two recent decisions in which the claimants argued that their dismissals were automatically unfair under the ‘serious and imminent danger’ provisions in the ERA It has not been difficult for employees to establish a reasonable belief that there were circumstances of danger in the early days of the pandemic …

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Automatic unfair dismissal: Understand employees’ protection from dismissal for health and safety reasons

Baker McKenzie LLP | June 2021 #221
A supervisor’s recent EAT win has highlighted the extent of the protections available to employees who have health and safety duties, explains Annabel Mackay Provided that employees act within their mandate and do not carry out their activities in a malicious or extraneous manner, they will enjoy protection from dismissal. The recent case of Sinclair …

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