LIST OF CASES / Pacitti Jones v O'Brien CS 2005

Court of Session on 12th July 2005 [case no 2205CSIH56], reported at [2005] IRLR 888

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Pacitti Jones v O'Brien, Scottish Court of Session on 12th July 2005, reported at [2005] IRLR 888

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Representation:-

Act: Napier Q.C; Harper Macleod

Alt: Murdoch, Solicitor-Advocate; Henderson Boyd Jackson, W.S.

Authority for the proposition that:-

the one year period of continuous employment normally required for having, for example, the right not to be unfairly dismissed and/or the right to a written statement of reasons for dismissal is 365 days (or 366 in a leap year) beginning with the day the employee starts work - so the start date must be included in counting the 365 (or 366) days.

For relevant general notes see Continuous employment/meaning of and/or Time-limits/basic general rules .

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