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Holiday Pay: Carrying Over when on Sick Leave
Holiday Pay: Carrying Over when on Sick Leave In Khan v Martin McColl, an Employment Tribunal ruled that Mr Khan, who had been on long-term sick leave, was not entitled to holiday pay as he had not r...
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References: Where there are outstanding disciplinary issues
References: Where there are outstanding disciplinary issues In Jackson v Liverpool City Council, the Court of Appeal found that a former employer was not in breach of its duty of care when it provide...
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Employment Tribunal Fees Review Begins
Employment Tribunal Fees Review Begins The government has announced the start of its promised review of the impact of the introduction of employment tribunal fees. The review will make recommendation...
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Holidays for Sick Workers: If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get
...employment terminated, her employer paid her in lieu of holiday which accrued in the final year of her employment but not for holiday which accrued in the previous two years. Mrs Fraser brought a trib...
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No Damages for Breach of Contractual Disciplinary Procedure
...employment tribunal. In the cases of Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust and Botham v Ministry of Defence, employees sought to argue that breaches of a contractual disciplinary pro...
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Illegal Worker Unable to Bring Race Discrimination Claim
...employment tribunal on public policy grounds on the basis that employees should not be able to bring statutory employment claims which are dependent on a contract of employment having existed between ...
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Employer’s Covenant Drafting Error Could Not be Corrected By Court
...employment contract contained a 12 month non-compete covenant precluding him from being involved in any competing business. However, this was limited to where his involvement was in connection with a...
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Tribunal Claims Still Falling
Tribunal Claims Still Falling The latest employment tribunal statistics reveal a 25% drop in the number of single claims compared to the same period last year and a drop on the previous quarter. Overa...
Extra wage support announced for businesses shut down due to Covid restrictions
...employment contract by agreement and notify the employee in writing. This agreement must be made available to HMRC on request. As this is part of the Job Support Scheme (announced a couple of we...
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New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment
New duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment Government to extend workplace protections against harassment The Government has confirmed it will introduce a new duty requiring employers to preve...
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Employment Tribunal rules unfair dismissal, after the N-word is used during anti-racism training
Employment Tribunal rules unfair dismissal, after the N-word is used during anti-racism training Doyle Clayton client, Carl Borg-Neal, has been successful with his claim at an Employment Tribunal, aga...
Headscarves and high heels: can the law interfere with what we wear? - as published in the Times
...employment law practitioners believe that the Achbita opinion is wrong on its assessment of how religious beliefs should be protected and the genuine occupational requirement defence. It suggests that...
Monsoon Accessorize It never Rains but it Pours
Monsoon Accessorize It never Rains but it Pours National Minimum Wage (NMW) Today we heard that Monsoon Accessorize topped the Government’s latest name-and-shame list of companies who failed to pay th...
Jonas Gutierrez: lessons for employers - as published in HR Magazine
...Employment Tribunal had to make a decision based on which side’s witnesses were most credible and it preferred Gutierrez’s evidence. Had the club recorded its decision-making process contemporaneousl...
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Type 2 Diabetes May Be a Disability
...Employment Appeal Tribunal has ordered an employment tribunal to consider whether a person suffering from Type 2 diabetes was disabled on the basis that he suffered from a progressive condition. Speed...
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Agency workers not entitled to the same number of contractual hours as direct recruits
...employment tribunal claim and argued he was entitled to the same annual leave, paid rest breaks and amount of work as direct recruits. The employment tribunal disagreed. It ruled that his less genero...
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Teacher suspected of possessing indecent images of children was unfairly dismissed
...employment posed an unacceptable risk to children. It also considered there was a risk of reputational damage if he was prosecuted in future and it became known the school was aware of the allegations...
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Collective Consultation: ECJ rules on calculating number of redundancies
...employment tribunals being able to award of up to 90 days’ full pay for each individual employee. What about Brexit?The Directive will be retained in UK law under TULR(C)A after the Brexit transi...
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Discrimination Compensation: Duty to Mitigate Loss
Discrimination Compensation: Duty to Mitigate Loss In Debique v Ministry of Defence the EAT upheld an employment tribunal’s decision not to award compensation for loss of earnings following successfu...
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Subjective Criteria Can Be Used When Selecting Redundant Employees for Alternative Roles
...employment tribunal considered that the criteria used were nebulous and liable to subjective interpretation and was concerned that employees were not scored consistently or objectively. The EAT held ...