Is a dismissal redundancy or for some other substantial reason?

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• Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Martland v Cooperative Insurance Society Limited concerns whether a dismissal, when the workforce is immediately offered re-engagement on new terms and conditions of employment, amounts to a “redundancy dismissal” entitling the workforce to redundancy payments.

The Tribunal found such dismissals were not redundancy dismissals but were dismissals for “some other substantial reason”. The employees all appealed claiming that they had been dismissed because there was a r... (361 more words)

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