"Who was the winner of the U.K.'s 2010 ""Apprentice"" series, who recently lost a claim of constructive dismissal against Alan Sugar, after resigning and saying she had been treated like an ""overpaid lackey"" ?"
Alan Sugar used their successful experience in the show as a springboard to advance their own careers (as occurred with Michelle Dewberry, the winner of the second series, who left Amstrad's employment only 8 months after taking up the job). In September 2013, Sugar lost his Employment tribunal counter-claim against Stella English, the 2010 winner of The Apprentice. Sugar has criticised the US version of "The Apprentice" because "they've made the fatal error of trying to change things just for the sake of it and it backfired." "Young Apprentice" (Junior Apprentice in series 1) was a British reality television programme spin-off in
Constructive dismissal constructive dismissal might be a unilateral change of contract justified by a bigger benefit to the business than the inconvenience to the employee), but the Employment Appeal Tribunal doubts that it will be very often that the employer can breach ERA96 s98(4) whilst being fair. A constructive dismissal occurs when the employer's serious breach causes the employee to accept that the contract has been terminated, by resigning. The fairness of it would have to be looked at separately under a statutory claim for unfair dismissal. The problems for the employer are that constructive dismissal is a contractual claim, which can