The ET has held in Medhin v Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd t/a Restaurant Associates ET/2300304/10 that an employee who was dismissed for eating a muffin was unfairly dismissed....
We are hosting a networking event in Swansea to launch Forbury Investment Network in Wales on Tuesday 15th March....
In Stephens v Halfords plc ET/1700796/10 the Tribunal has held that an employee`s dismissal for posting negative comments on Facebook was unfair....
It has been reported that a former MP, Jim Devine, has been declared bankrupt after he failed to pay the compensation awarded by a Scottish Employment Tribunal in the sum of £35,000 to his ex Office Manager....
It may seem medieval that even now a private householder can be personally liable for paying for repairs to the chancel, being the eastern part of their local church, but it is a very real possibility....
The BBC reported dozens of stickers circulated around gay pubs in Shoreditch and outside a Whitechapel school, consisting of numerous homophobic messages (‘Gay Free Zone`) and a reference to the Islamic Koran to support it....
Clarkslegal has acted for the shareholders of Buffer Bear and Childcare Partners Limited in the transfer of ownership to Mid-Counties Cooperative Limited....
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has just announced that the right to request time off for training is not going to be extended to all employees from April 2011....
There is some uncertainty circulating regarding the transitional provisions abolishing the default retirement age, which are expected to be published later this week. There is some suggestion that the transitional provisions will provide for the default retirement age to survive until 6th April 2012 (not 30th September 2011 as previously thought), provided the employee has reached 65 on or before 30th September 2011. This may just mean that employees can work for an extra 6 months but all other requirements for issuing notice by 30 March 2011 etc stay the same? Or will this date now be 5 April 2011?...
The Government is to commission an independent review of workplace sickness absence. It is believed that Dame Carol Black, the Government`s national director for health and work and a former president of the Royal College of Physicians, is leading the review alongside David Frost, director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC)....
It has been reported today that 38 warrant officers in the army have been told by email that they are to be made redundant. The officers, all of whom are said to have more than 22 years` service and one of whom is currently serving in Afghanistan, reportedly received an email giving them one year`s notice and telling them to "plan for their resettlement"....
For most Start Ups and SMEs, keeping abreast of ever changing employment laws can seem a daunting prospect. The time, energy and money needed getting to grips with all the potential legal pitfalls can be too much for most new businesses. So, why not avoid the pitfalls all together and start as you mean to go on....
A recent case put a new twist on the age old question of whether one party`s terms and conditions apply to a contract, sometimes known as ‘the battle of the forms`. This issue can be of crucial importance because a customer`s claim that might otherwise succeed can fail under "pro-supplier" terms and vice versa....
In Gosden v Lifeline Project Ltd ET/2802731/09 the ET has held that an employee who forwarded a racist email to a colleague from his personal computer to that employee`s personal computer was guilty of gross misconduct, entitling the employer to dismiss him when the email was forwarded on to other colleagues work email addresses....
If the results of a recent survey are anything to go by, probably not! According to job site Monster.co.uk`s January Employment Index, three in four people are unhappy in their jobs and one in four have experienced workplace bullying. The Index is based on a survey of 2,600 people registered with Monster....
Clarkslegal is proud to support Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers (Bloodrunners), Diana Brimblecombe Animal Rescue Centre and LATCH as our nominated charities throughout 2011....
Former garden centre employee, Joe Hashman, thinks so and has sought to persuade the Employment Tribunal that it is. Mr Hashman alleges he was dismissed from employment in September 2009 a day after covert video footage he filmed helped convict celebrity chef Clarissa Dickson Wright of attending an illegal hare coursing event. He claims his former employers are pro-hunting and that they sacked him for being an animal welfare activist. The garden centre denies his claims, insisting that his beliefs played no part in his dismissal and that he was dismissed because he was not making them enough money....
As the RMT was forced yesterday to call off the rail strike that would have caused chaos to the big 6 nations rugby match between Wales and England this Friday in Cardiff, it is worth asking the question, why and when do workers go on strike? In an article this week on the BBC News Magazine site, "Working out if strikes are worth it?", an interesting look is taken at the cases of individual workers who have taken strike action and whether they thought going on strike had been worth it....
On Wednesday 23 March we are holding a breakfast seminar at the Hilton Hotel in Reading. It will be from 7.45 - 10.15am and will be on the key subjects of employee engagement, motivation and leadership - Hiring, Firing and Inspiring....
Despite the Coalition`s recent Employer`s Charter designed to redress the balance of employment legislation in favour of businesses, it now appears to have undermined many of its pledges. The Government has introduced a new proposal to fine employers 50% of the total compensation award, over and above the payout to the Claimant, if employer`s are found to have breached an individual`s rights. The fine, which is essentially a tax on businesses that make mistakes, would most likely be limited to a maximum of £5000 and could be reduced to half if the employer paid within 21 days....