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Refusal of job offer

Where an employee had refused alternative employment with his employer and sought to bring a redundancy claim, the level of consideration of reasonableness, to be applied by a tribunal, remained that of Everest v Cox (1980). The employee’s conduct was to be judged from his point of view on the basis of the facts as they were, or should have been, apparent to him at the time.

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