Rarely is a decision made in a case that has the potential to affect every single employer in the country. The decision of the European Court of Justice in Lock v British Gas is one of those decisions. If you are an employer who pays any form of commission, overtime, Read more…
Growth is about the entrepreneur, great products and innovation, strategy and opportunity, right? What has that got to do with HR and employment law support? Well let us flip the question around. Do disputes, litigation, workplace grievances, staff turnover, recruitment costs and damage to reputation act as a brake on Read more…
The law in relation to “whistleblowing” in the UK was introduced by the Government in 1998 to protect genuine whistleblowers in the workplace and thereby encourage a culture of openness and good governance. In practice many threatened “whistleblowing” claims tend to be more about an individual seeking to maximise their Read more…
In a further sign that the Government believes that the economy is in full blown recovery, the first real terms increase to the National Minimum Wage for a number of years has been announced (previous rises were largely in line with inflation). As a result, the adult NMW rate will rise Read more…
The Office for National Statistics has published its figures for sickness absence levels across the UK in its annual report for the period October 2012 to September 2013. Employers may be surprised to note that according to the latest statistics, a total of 131 million days were lost last year due Read more…
An employer’s duty to make reasonable adjustments for a disabled employee only arises where the employer knows or is reasonably expected to know that the employee has a disability. Assessing whether an employee is disabled can be difficult, particularly in a case of mental illness. In the recent Court of Read more…
Ever been in a situation where you are expecting a Tribunal claim from a troublesome former employee and you have a date three months less one day after dismissal circled in your calendar? Well the case of Robinson v Bowskill and ors is a recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case Read more…
The Ministry of Justice has published its “provisional management information” showing receipt of Employment Tribunal claims up to September 2013, in light of Employment Tribunal fees now being in effect for all claims issued after 29 July 2013. It was envisaged that there would be a surge in claims in Read more…
The Employment Appeal Tribunal in the case of Warner v Armfield Retail & Leisure Ltd [2012] has held that a disabled employee’s contract of employment is capable of being frustrated, but that in such cases, the Employment Tribunal must first consider whether the employer was in breach of its duty Read more…
A potentially redundant employee will lose their right to a statutory redundancy payment if they unreasonably refuse an offer of suitable alternative employment made by their employer. In the recent case of Devon Primary Care Trust v Readman the Court of Appeal confirmed the correct test to use when assessing Read more…