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The Covent Garden HR Buddies is an initiative facilitated by Clarkslegal to offer the London HR community the opportunity to meet with like-minded peers, attend relevant seminars and workshops and boost your knowhow of the issues specific to this sector.
 
It’s free and open to anyone interested in HR. It sets its own agenda, so it can be purely social or facilitate presentations to help prevent HR problems for companies in the London area. So if you want to network face to face contact
buddy@clarkslegal.comClick here for further details about our next HR Buddies event.  

If, alternatively, you wish to network online with other HR professionals, then using the discussion forum below, is your ideal opportunity to do so.

Please feel free to post new queries or questions, and/or reply to ones already posted. All you have to do is register a few details, then you will be ready to post your thoughts.

You can post a new query by selecting the tab "new thread". To reply to a post, select that post and then choose the "reply" tab.

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 Unfair dismissal: schedule of loss
 
Kate_Atkinson
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1/4/2006

Unfair dismissal: schedule of loss
Posted: 18 Apr 06 12:23 PM

This week buddy was asked: My company is being sued for unfair dismissal. In the claimant's schedule of loss, he is claiming the cost of purchasing life insurance to the date of the hearing. This was part of his package as an employee but I have not seen this claimed before. Can he?

Kate_Atkinson
99 posts
Joined
1/4/2006

Re: Unfair dismissal: schedule of loss
Posted: 28 Apr 06 12:39 PM

Buddy says: It depends on whether the claimant has actually purchased life insurance cover as a result of his dismissal. If not, given that he is still alive, he has suffered no financial loss by being uninsured and does not require compensation!

Employer information: In Knapton v ECC Card and Clothing Ltd, the EAT has determined that where an employee's remuneration package includes life insurance, the compensatory award should not include compensation for the cost of purchasing life insurance to the date of the hearing unless alternative insurance is actually purchased by an employee.

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