Employee cannot claim for manner of dismissal

An employee was not entitled to damages for the manner in which he was sacked, according to a recent judgment by the House of Lords. The case, Johnson -v- Unisys, was reported in The Times today (23 March). The employee, Fenton Johnson, had already won a claim for unfair dismissal in an employment tribunal, and had been awarded the maximum compensation. Mr Johnson then made a further claim that the manner of his dismissal had caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown, preventing him from gaini... (46 more words)

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