Can a prisoner claim unfair dismissal?
by Philip
Given the spate of evil and unsavoury characters that have been sent to prison in the last week, the EAT have had to wrestle with the issue as to whether a prisoner on day release from prison to do work at a local employer under a scheme designed to re-habilitate and re-settle offenders accrues employment rights?
The answer was that no employment rights accrue during day release, so the prisoner in that case could not claim unfair dismissal. Even though he was taken on by the employer after his release, the service when he was on a day release did not count as continuous service therefore he could not claim as he did not have one year’s qualifying service.
Despite getting a chance after being released, he was dismissed for unreliability which is rather disheartening as unemployment will no doubt increase the chances of his recidivism.
As two of the three monsters above have been sentenced to whole of life sentences, the chances of any of them ever getting anywhere near another employer is remote, other than shovelling coal in the fires of hell.
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