EAT overturns finding of unfair dismissal for ‘offensive’ tweets

Posted By: James

Tuesday 16th December 2014

In Game Retail Ltd v Laws the EAT has held that an employment judge erred in failing to take full account of the public nature of Twitter when finding that an employee’s dismissal for posting ‘offensive’ tweets was unfair. The judge did not properly consider whether the employee’s purportedly private use of Twitter was truly private, given that he was followed by a number of other employees. The EAT refused to lay down any general guidance on dismissal for social media misuse, pointing out that cases are fact-sensitive and that the usual ‘range of reasonable responses’ test applies.

L was employed by GR Ltd as a risk and loss prevention investigator with responsibility

 

http:// http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/2014/0188_14_0311.html

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