In Linsley v Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Custom, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has given guidance on how a Tribunal should approach the issue of reasonableness in cases relating to reasonable adjustments for disabled employees. ...
Tywyn Primary School v Aplin concerned a gay primary school Head Teacher who had sexual relations with two 17-year-old males he had met on Grindr....
In Sutton Oak Church of England School v Whitaker, the employee was a gay male teacher. He was found in a classroom alone with, and offering sweets to, a male year 5 pupil during a lunchtime break, in breach of guidelines issued to him 13 years prior as part of an earlier disciplinary outcome. He was dismissed....
In North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust v Gregg, the Court of Appeal overturned an injunction that had prevented an employer from continuing with disciplinary proceedings pending the outcome of police enquiries....
We previously blogged on the High Court case of Agoreyo v London Borough of Lambeth, in which the High Court held that the suspension of a teacher was a “knee jerk reaction” which breached the implied term of trust and confidence (enabling Ms Agoreyo to resign and claim constructive dismissal)...
The government has confirmed increases to statutory payments and tribunal awards, which will take effect on 6th April 2019....
The Chancellor presented his Spring Statement to Parliament this week. The Government suggest that there are over 3.5 million more people in work than there were in 2010 and a million fewer workless households, unemployment rates continue to decline being at 4%; their lowest in more than 4 decades...
In the case of Braine and others v The National Gallery an Employment Tribunal (ET) has held that art experts who worked as Educators for the National Gallery were workers and not independent contractors as argued by the Gallery. The ET held that the Educators only had the status of worker when undertaking an actual assignment and when they were in between assignments they were neither employees nor workers....
Women taking leadership roles is often portrayed these days as a ground-breaking development, something achieved through relatively recent laws and strong social pressure about equality of opportunity....
The Government has started a consultation on increased regulation of confidentiality clauses in a bid to tackle cases of unethical misuse. ...
In SW Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust v Jackson, the Claimant was involved in a redundancy exercise whilst on maternity leave. ...
In Hare Wines v Kaur, the Claimant had a strained working relationship with a colleague who, as it happened, was going to be a director in the transferee’s business. The Claimant was dismissed on the transfer date and alleged that this was because of the transfer (and, thus, automatically unfair). The Tribunal agreed and, in doing so, recognised that the ongoing difficulties in the working relationship played a part in the dismissal....
An 88-year-old woman has succeeded in her age discrimination claim, making her the oldest person to win such a case. ...
In an official Opinion on 31st January 2019, the Advocate General has proposed that in order to truly comply with the Working Time Directive EU members must, through national law, require employers to keep actual records of any time worked by their employees. ...
As we blogged at the time, an employment tribunal decided last year that a group of Hermes couriers, whose written contracts described them as self-employed business people drivers, in fact had the statutory rights of “worker”. This includes the right to be paid at least the national minimum/living wage, to receive holiday pay and to seek union recognition....
Michael Sippitt, Chairman of Clarkslegal LLP and Director of Forbury People, Clarkslegal’s subsidiary HR consultancy, was delighted to accept his award as the leading ‘Human Resources Individual Lawyer outside of London’, at last night’s Legal 500 UK Awards 2019 in London....
Yesterday, the Court of Appeal in Asda Stores v Brierley ruled that female shop workers could compare themselves to male colleagues working in distribution centres. ...
Back in August 2018, the government published its report on “Workplace Rights If There's No Brexit Deal”, which is looking ever more likely, the closer we get to 29 March. ...
Google LLC has been fined 50 million euros by CNIL (the French data protection regulator and ‘lead authority’ in this matter) for breaches of GDPR. ...
The government announced its plans on Friday to provide greater protection for parents returning to work and pregnant women from redundancy in new legislation....