Employee-favourable
2026
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
2026
A serious, ongoing failure to pay your wages, pension or holiday pay can be a fundamental breach of your contract, giving you the right to resign and claim constructive dismissal.
Employee-favourable
2024
Being frozen out by a colleague, over months or years, can be constructive dismissal if your employer knew and never properly fixed it.
Employee-favourable
2023
A slow or superficial grievance investigation can itself help prove constructive dismissal, on top of whatever conduct you originally complained about.
Employee-favourable
2011
An adjustment does not need a guaranteed, or even a strong, chance of removing your disadvantage to count as reasonable under the law. A lesser prospect can be enough.
Employee-favourable
2026
Suspension isn't a neutral, automatic step. Your employer needs a genuine and proportionate reason for it, and getting that wrong can itself amount to a breach of your contract.
Employee-favourable
2025
If your employer ignores a genuine whistleblowing concern and freezes you out afterwards, that pattern can be enough to justify resigning and claiming constructive dismissal, and your employer's failure to follow its own whistleblowing policy can increase your compensation.
Employee-favourable
2004
Threatening dismissal outside a fair process can itself breach your contract.
If your grievance is being handled badly, you're not imagining it. This guide names the six most common ways employers get it wrong, and what each one means for your position.
Employee-favourable
2026
If your employer presents a change to your role as open for discussion but the decision was already made beforehand, that is not real consultation. Tribunals look at what actually happened, not what the meeting was called.
Employee-favourable
2019
A secret recording will not sink your unfair dismissal claim or your compensation on its own. A tribunal weighs why you made it and what is on it before deciding how much it should count.
Employee-favourable
2013
A grievance appeal heard by the same manager who rejected your original grievance is not a genuine appeal, and that failure can matter to a constructive dismissal claim.
