To what extent can a Tribunal look into previous written warnings given to an employee when deciding whether a subsequent dismissal was fair? It is unusual to see the Court of Appeal (CA) overturn an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision which upheld the initial decision of the Tribunal, but this Read more…
Following on from our blog in January which outlined the three major political parties’ intentions in relation to employment law following the general election on 7 May, now that the full manifestos have been published, what more do we know about the main proposals? You will probably all be aware that Employment Read more…
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (“SBEEA 2015”) will enable the Secretary of State to establish a framework of regulations for businesses that own public houses. These regulations will be known as the “Pubs Code” and will affect the relationship between landlords and their tied pub tenants. A Read more…
I was really pleased to read in the news this week, not just because I am a born and bred Cambridgeshire girl, but because of the notable contribution that the UK provides to medical research and development, that a team at a Cambridge Hospital have been successful in pioneering a Read more…
All the political parties have the Right to Buy scheme high on their agenda. In my new vlog I discuss what this means for the Social Housing sector. httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBuORQkdT8 Transcript: All the political parties have the right to buy scheme high on their agenda. Whatever happens on 7 May, the Read more…
On 31 January 2015, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) launched a consultation on proposals to streamline the resale of shared ownership properties to make it quicker and easier to sell them. Current law Shared ownership leases include a pre-emption right Read more…
In July 2013 the Government introduced fees for bringing employment tribunal claims for the first time. You may recall from our last blog about tribunal fees in June 2014 that Rebecca Hutchinson reported a dramatic drop in the number of claims being brought at the tribunals as a consequence of the Read more…
The law on protection for “whistleblowers” is contained within the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. A couple of years ago the Government made some amendments to this Act, the most important of which was widely reported to be a new requirement that disclosures needed to be made in the “public Read more…
It is a legal requirement for all employees to be provided with a statement of employment particulars within the first two months of employment. For most employers this statement is either incorporated into or serves as the contract of employment. However, there are plenty of employers who do not get Read more…
The case of Lock and others v British Gas Trading Ltd has returned to an Employment Tribunal, which has ruled it necessary to add words to the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) to make it compliant with the EU Working Time Directive. You may recall that the European Court of Read more…