Employment law moves more quickly than any other legal area I know. Last week I presented three separate employment law updates and by the end of the week one of the cases I mentioned had been overturned by the Court of Appeal.
The case is Sarkar v West London Mental Health NHS Trust and if you were on one of the courses you may remember that that was the case where the employer originally dealt with bullying allegations by invoking their informal ‘fair blame procedure’ but then decided that following further allegations and the employee refusing to accept the outcome of the procedure they moved to the formal procedure and dismissed him. The EAT reversed the tribunal’s finding of unfair dismissal and held that the employer was entitled to act in the way that it did.
