Worthingtons Commercial Solicitors in Belfast have agreed to write an email every two months exclusively for Legal-Island email subscribers. These emails cover what, in the opinion of the writers, are the recent Northern Ireland employment cases that will most interest employment law practitioners.

This email focuses on a single case, which included automatic unfair dismissal and a maximum compensatory award and should act as a reminder for all employers to keep records if they wish to be in a position to refute an employee's allegations.

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Richard Vance v Charles Hurst Ltd Case Ref 1501/10

Automatically unfair dismissal by reason of taking parental leave attracts statutory maximum compensatory award.

The Tribunal found that the Claimant was entitled to the statutory