Employment law

Hi,

Does an employee need to have been continuously employed for 2 years in order to bring action for unfair dismissal? I’m doing the kaplan revision kit and in one question where the employee, who’s been working for 18th months, is dismissed for requesting paid holiday leave the answer is that he can bring action for unfair dismissal regardless of his length of employment and then there is another question where the answer is that the employee must be continuously employed for two years to bring action for unfair dismissal.

There is another question that says: in the context of employment law, which of the following statements regarding wrongful dismissal is correct?
The correct answer is that ‘the employee is dismissed without proper notice’ but one of the options is ‘the employee is dismissed for unjustifiable reasons’, which I marked as the correct answer because in the lecture notes says that wrongful dismissal is when the employee has been dismissed without justification, so why in that question is not the correct answer?

The question: which two of the following are reasons for dismissal which would be justified as fair?
a) capability or qualifications of the employee
b)legal prohibitions relating to the employee
c)refusal of the employee to join a trade union
d)taking part in unofficial industrial action

The correct answer is A&B, but D is also justified as automatically fair according to the notes, why D is not the correct answer?

Many thanks