ACCA F4 - Corp and Business Law (ENG)

154 9: Dismissal and redundancy  Part C Employment law

Quick Quiz

1 Fill in the blanks below, using the words in the box.

To claim (1) .................... for unfair dismissal, three issues have to be considered.

The employee must show that they are a (2) .................... employee and that they have been

(3) ....................

The (4) .................... must show what the (5) .................... was for dismissal

Application has to be made to the (6) .................... within (7) .................... months of the dismissal

 qualifying  dismissed  employer

 reason  three  compensation

 employment tribunal^

2 Expiry of a fixed term contract without renewal amounts to a dismissal.

True^

False

3 Which one of the following is not a question that a tribunal, when considering an employer's

reasonableness in an unfair dismissal claim, will want to answer?

A What would a reasonable employer have done?

B Has the correct procedure been applied?

C Has any employee been dismissed in this way before?

D Did the employer take all circumstances into consideration?

4 Which is the most common remedy awarded for unfair dismissal?

compensation

re-engagement

re-instalment

5 An employee is not entitled to redundancy pay if they resign voluntarily before being made redundant even

if they were aware of the possibility of redundancy.

True

False^

Answers to Quick Quiz

1 (1) compensation (2) qualifying (3) dismissed (4) employer (5) reason (6) employment tribunal (7) three

2 True. Non-renewal constitutes dismissal.

3 C. The question is irrelevant to the employee's situation.

4 Compensation, as in most cases the working relationship would have been irrevocably damaged.

5 True, as they are not being made redundant.

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