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Should employers welcome the recent changes to the unfair dismissal law?

September 2010 - Employment. Legal Developments by Carey Olsen.

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On 1 October 2009, the Employment (Jersey) Law 2003 (the "Law") will be amended to give the Jersey Employment Tribunal the power to direct an employer to re-employ an employee who brings a successful claim for unfair dismissal.

The changes to the Law also allow the Tribunal to reduce the amount of compensation awarded to an employee who brings a successful claim for unfair dismissal where this is in the interests of justice, for example where the employee is partly to blame.

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