Management Conduct

7 results
Employee-favourable 2026

Being left unsupported and mocked for your age can justify resigning and winning.

If your employer leaves you unsupported and then blames or belittles you when things go wrong, that can be enough to resign and win a constructive dismissal claim. It's even clearer if they throw in comments about your age.

Employee-favourable 2018

Your employer can still be liable for a manager’s conduct at an informal after-party.

An employer's responsibility for a manager's conduct does not switch off just because the official work event has ended.

Employer-favourable 2000

If your employer’s investigation found no real evidence, that alone doesn’t make your dismissal unfair.

In an unfair dismissal claim, proving your innocence isn't the test. The test is whether your employer's investigation and belief in your guilt were ones a reasonable employer could have reached.

Employee-favourable 2015

If HR steers your investigating manager towards a guilty finding, that can make your dismissal unfair.

HR can advise your employer on process and on keeping sanctions consistent during a disciplinary investigation. It shouldn't be shaping the findings on your guilt or credibility.

Employee-favourable 2026

Being quietly passed over for a role a male colleague gets can be unlawful.

If someone of a different sex is given a promotion or expanded role you were never told about or allowed to apply for, that can be unlawful sex discrimination, regardless of what your employer calls the change internally.

Employee-favourable 2002

Being humiliated at work can be enough to end the employment relationship.

If you were publicly humiliated, persistently undermined, or treated in a way that destroyed the working relationship, you may be entitled to resign and claim constructive dismissal. There is no minimum level of severity required.

Employee-favourable 2024

A new manager can destroy a working relationship in a single morning.

If you resigned because of how you were treated at work, you may have a claim for constructive dismissal. The law does not require a single dramatic act. A pattern of deliberate, unreasonable behaviour can be enough.