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Readman v Devon Primary Care Trust - the reasonableness of refusing suitable alternative employment

In a redundancy situation, a tribunal must objectively assess a job offered to decide whether it amounted to "suitable alternative employment". However, the test for whether the employee reasonably refused it is subjective: the tribunal must decide whether, in all the circumstances of that particular employee, that particular employee acted reasonably in refusing the job offer (in other words, any objective assessment of what a "reasonable employee" might have done is irrelevant).  

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