LRD guides and handbook May 2019

Law at Work 2019 - the trade union guide to employment law

Chapter 10

Loss of driving licence





[ch 10: page 352]

Where a driver faces dismissal due to the loss of his licence, the employer should first look for suitable alternative employment. Failing to do this will not always make a dismissal unfair. As always, it depends on context. For example, in Wincanton Group PLC v Gregory [2012] UKEAT/0011/2/1110, Mr Gregory’s dismissal was unfair because Wincanton misled him into thinking it was looking for other suitable jobs when this was not true.