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Failure to consider bumping on redundancy may make dismissal unfair (Mirab v Mentor Graphics (UK))

Published on: 21 March 2018

Table of contents

  • What are the practical implications of this judgment?
  • What is the relevant background?
  • Background law
  • Background facts
  • What did the EAT decide?
  • Case details

Article summary

Employment analysis: An employer’s failure, in a redundancy situation, to consider the ‘bumping’ dismissal of a more junior employee to make way for a more senior employee may, or may not, make the dismissal of the senior employee unfair, depending upon the circumstances, according to the EAT.

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