In 2013, we saw the Employment Appeal Tribunal effectively re-write the statute book and change the way employers needed to approach collective redundancy consultation, by removing the need for redundancies to be at one establishment”. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has now given its Judgment and it looks like the law Read more…
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…
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…
The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014-2015 (SBEEB) , currently going through the House of Lords, proposes a ban on employers using “exclusivity clauses” in zero hour contracts. The legislation will allow the Secretary of State to make regulations to ensure that employers do not try to circumvent the Read more…
Given IT developments, it is now possible for employees working for British businesses to work remotely from other countries. Businesses that use remote workers in other countries should take note of an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision which examined the territorial scope of UK employment rights. The EAT held that Read more…
HR professionals will be familiar with the situation where new contracts of employment are sent out to employees which are never returned. This creates difficulties when the employer wants to rely on any changes in the new contract. The question then becomes: is the employee bound by the new terms? Read more…
Most employers know that if they breach the laws which govern workplace relations then they can expect to receive claims for unfair dismissal, discrimination or breach of contract (even if there is no written contract). Many employers will also have experienced personal injury claims brought by employees who have suffered Read more…
Happy New Year to all of our regular readers. The General Election will take place on 7 May 2015. Experienced HR and employment law practitioners will know that General Elections matter to employment law. Over recent years successive Governments have made major changes to the balance of employment rights and Read more…