Caljan Ltd

Case Summary

The claimant was summarily dismissed for gross misconduct after being absent from work without permission. The Employment Judge found the dismissal to be fair and dismissed all claims.

The Employment Judge found that the claimant's summary dismissal for gross misconduct (unauthorised absence from work) was conducted fairly by the respondent, both procedurally and substantively, and therefore dismissed all of the claimant's claims.

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• •Was misconduct the reason for the Claimant's dismissal?
• •Did the Respondent have a genuine belief that the claimant was guilty of the misconduct alleged?
• •Were there reasonable grounds on which that belief was founded?
• •Was the belief in misconduct arrived at having carried out as much investigation into the matter as was reasonable in all the circumstances of the case?
• •Was the procedure within the band of reasonable responses, in other words, would a reasonable employer have carried out the procedure the respondent did?
• •Was the sanction within the band of reasonable responses, in other words, would a reasonable employer have imposed the sanction that the respondent did?

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