Supreme CourtPublished: January 6, 2020Royal Mail Group Ltd v JhutiBefore Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lord Hodge and Lady Arden [2019] UKSC 55 Judgment: November 27, 2019If a person in the hierarchy of responsibility above an employee determined that the employee should be dismissed for one reason but hid it behind another invented reason, which the decision-maker in good faith adopted, the reason for the dismissal was the hidden reason rather than the invented reason. The Supreme Court so held in allowing an appeal by the employee, Kamaljeet Jhuti, against the decision of the Court of Appeal (Lord Justice Jackson, Lord Justice Underhill and Lord Justice Moylan) ([2018] ICR 982), which reversed the decision of the Employment Appeal…

Source: The Times January 06, 2020 00:00 UTC