In an increasingly competitive jobs market, people tend to think ‘does a little white lie in my CV matter if it helps me get the job’. The answer to this is that it very well could and the consequences could very well be serious.
If you believe there is malpractice or wrongdoing in a workplace then you can ‘blow the whistle’ on the behaviour and be protected from losing your job and/or being victimised by your employer. The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 legislates that if you believe there is wrongdoing in your workplace (eg your employer is committing a criminal offence) you can report this by following the correct processes, and your employment rights are protected.
Redundancy is only a fair reason for dismissal in the specific circumstances defined in section 139 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
It can arise when the need for employees to carry out work of a particular type in a particular place has ceased or diminished or is expected to cease or diminish.
It must therefore involve either the closure, (whether temporary or permanent) of a business as a whole or closure of a particular workplace where the employee was employed or a reduction in the size of the workforce.
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