Masiero v Barchester Healthcare Ltd

Subject Matter

EMPLOYMENT — Unfair dismissal — Reasonableness of dismissal — Claimants dismissed by care home provider for refusing vaccination against Covid-19 — Whether insistence on vaccination potentially fair reason for dismissal — Whether protecting care home residents’ right to life justifying interference with claimants’ right to private life — Whether dismissals unfair — Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), s 98(2)(4) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 8

[2024] EAT 112; [2024] ICR 1419; [2024] WLR(D) 350, EAT

Legislation Considered

Statutes

Employment Rights Act 1996 (c 18), s 98(2)(4)

Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 2, 8

Cases Considered

Cases considered in: Masiero v Barchester Healthcare Ltd [2024] EAT 112; [2024] ICR 1419; [2024] WLR(D) 350, EAT

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Masiero v Barchester Healthcare Ltd [2024] EAT 112; [2024] ICR 1419; [2024] WLR(D) 350, EAT

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) v Brady [2006] IRLR 576, EAT

Boso v Italy (Application No 50490/99) Reports of Judgments and Decisions 2002-VII, p 451, ECtHR

Brent London Borough Council v Fuller [2011] EWCA Civ 267; [2011] ICR 806; [2011] WLR (D) 94, CA

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Hollister v National Farmers’ Union [1979] ICR 542, CA

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Pretty v United Kingdom (Application No 2346/02) (2002) 35 EHRR 1, ECtHR

R (Peters) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 3182 (Admin), QBD

Scott & Co v Richardson UKEATS/74/04 (unreported) 26 April 2005, EAT(Sc)

Taylor v OCS Group Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 702; [2006] ICR 1602, CA

Turner v East Midlands Trains Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 1470; [2013] ICR 525; [2013] 3 All ER 375; [2012] WLR (D) 353, CA

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Yeboah v Crofton [2002] EWCA Civ 794; [2002] IRLR 634, CA