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Employment law

Feature - 13 November 2006

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    • Employment law: redundancy and private practice

    Jan Ostrowski reviews three employment tribunal decisions concerning NHS staff.

    Redundancy of unsatisfactory staff

    Re-organisations should not be regarded as an opportunity to dismiss unsatisfactory staff. This is the moral of the tribunal decision in Ditch v.New Possibilities NHS Trust.Mr Ditch, a mental health nurse,was suspended pending an investigation of his working relationship with other staff....

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