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 Government has just announced the new maximum for the compensatory award in unfair dismissal claims and the new cap for a weeks’ pay to be used for calculating statutory redundancy pay and certain tribunal awards. From 6 April 2015, the cap on a weeks’ pay will rise to £475 Read more…
The EAT has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that a relocation of three and a half miles following a TUPE transfer was not a substantial change to bus drivers’ working conditions to their material detriment. The employees were therefore not entitled to claim that they had been constructively dismissed or Read more…
In an advancing technological society, it has become increasingly apparent that employers are choosing to more closely monitor their employees’ activities whilst at work, sometimes choosing to extend this even outside of the workplace. The fact that strict employee monitoring is viewed by some as immoral does not mean that Read more…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has upheld an employment tribunal’s decision that, as at 31 December 2006, a law firm’s mandatory retirement age of 65 for partners was a proportionate means of achieving the legitimate aims of workforce planning and staff retention. The retirement age was objectively justified and did Read more…
In addition to our blog on Employment Tribunal statistics, the BIS has also conducted a survey on Tribunal users and applications received in 2013. The document is rather large at 280 pages, however if you would like to read the full report, it is at httpss://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/316704/bis-14-708-survey-of-employment-tribunal-applications-2013.pdf. The most interesting findings Read more…
Employment Tribunal statistics for the first quarter of 2014 have been published today. In light of the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees last year, these statistics have been eagerly awaited. You may recall from our previous blog that the statistics for the period from October to December 2013 showed a Read more…
The increasing impact of the introduction of fees for Employment Tribunal claims has become even more apparent following the publication of the statistics for the latest quarter. The full report can be viewed here at httpss://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/289342/tribunal-stats-oct-dec-2013.pdf. Interestingly, this set of statistics has been published far later than in recent years, Read more…