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Belgium – the double or triple whammy of employment protection indemnities

In Belgian law, there are certain periods of employment during which there are greater than usual restrictions on an employer’s ability to dismiss an employee. These include periods of maternity, parental and other types of care leave. Parting company with employees during any period when they are protected against dismissal can become a costly affair, … Continue Reading

Later knowledge taints earlier dismissal – employers’ duties in appeals (UK)

You are hearing the appeal of an employee with less than two years’ service dismissed on the grounds of admitted poor conduct. What can possibly go wrong? Certainly not the seeming afterthought on the employee’s part, not mentioned at the dismissal stage, that her conduct might in part be explained by a depressive condition of … Continue Reading

UK Court rejects employer’s reliance on inadequate disability opinion

Your employee is sick a lot, mostly stress and related issues.  Keen to respect your statutory obligations if you have any, you repeatedly ask your external Occupational Health provider if this means he is disabled.  You are repeatedly told that he is not, though without any particular depth of enquiry on your part and without … Continue Reading
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