Welcome to the fourth edition of The Employment Edit – a summary of the most important recent cases and news affecting employers in the UK. We hope you find this newsletter helpful and informative. In this edition we look at:

• how the dismissal of a whistleblower for the manner in which protected disclosures were made was not automatically unfair
• the latest developments in fire and rehire
• liability for income protection cover where the employment contract is more generous than the underlying insurance cover
• how stopping PHI benefits at age 65 is not (necessarily) discriminatory
• whether grievance investigation reports are considered privileged
• the latest Acas advice on staff suspensions from work
• proposals to give employees paid leave for neonatal care
• “sunsetting” EU derived legislation

If you have any questions or would like to discuss any of the issues addressed in this edition further, please contact any of the lawyers listed at the end of this newsletter.

Dismissal of whistleblower for the manner in which protected disclosures were made was not automatically unfair

In Kong v Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited, the Court of Appeal (CA) upheld the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that the reason why a whistleblower, Ms Kong, was dismissed was not the fact that she had made protected disclosures, but because of the manner in which she had made the disclosures. Her disclosures had involved a verbal and personal attack on a senior colleague which...

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