Many managers and people working in HR will have grown used to the concept of age discrimination over the last ten years or so since regulations came into effect making it unlawful to discriminate in employment on the grounds of age. As with many changes in the law, when the Read more…
You may recall the introduction of “punitive fines” for employers who lose Employment Tribunal cases with “aggravating features” in April last year. What will undoubtedly be welcome news for employers now, however, is the fact that absolutely no awards have been made since the legislation took effect. That’s a period of nine Read more…
Employers often find it difficult to deal with intermittent sickness absence but matters can be made much more complicated if the employee off sick is disabled. This is a reoccurring problem in practice so I am using this blog to analyse a recent interesting case on an employer’s legal obligations Read more…
It is a common misconception that you are either, self-employed, employed or unemployed. But the wonderful and mysterious thing that is employment law recognises another category of employment status: the worker. Employees are the most protected category and self-employed people have virtually no employment rights. Indeed it is a strange 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…
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…
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…
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…