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Redundancy Selection and Parental Leave
Redundancy Selection and Parental Leave The ECJ has been asked to consider how an employer should conduct redundancy selection where a potentially redundant employee is returning from parental leave....
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Risk Assessment - A Brief Guide To Controlling Risks in the Workplace
Risk Assessment - A Brief Guide To Controlling Risks in the Workplace The HSE has issued revised guidance to replace the ‘Five steps to risk assessment’. The revised guidance is aimed mainly at empl...
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Fit For Work Service Roll Out
Fit For Work Service Roll Out The nationwide roll out of the Fit for Work referral service began on 9 March 2015, following a trial in the Sheffield area earlier this year. The service has been rolled...
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New PRA and FCA Whistleblowing Rules. Are you Ready?
...employment contracts Firms will have to ensure that wording in employment contracts and settlement agreements does not deter staff from whistleblowing. Firms will be required to include a term in all...
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Time limits: Court of Appeal highlights importance of clear dismissal letters
...Employment Appeal Tribunal failed and it appealed to the Court of Appeal. It argued it was not reasonable for Mr Brophy to read the 4 July letter (received on 6 July) as the letter which dismissed...
Vacation Vexation : Managing employee leave during COVID-19
...employment law experts Dan Begbie-Clench and Rose Smith guide employers through the thorny questions arising in respect of holiday in light of the COVID-19 lockdown. Areas th...
Menopause in the Workplace
Menopause in the Workplace "Sex, Myths and the Menopause” - Davina McCall’s Channel 4 documentary, has led to a marked increase in enquiries from clients about what they can do practically to sup...
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Forstater: effective protections for gender critical beliefs at work
...Employment Lawyers Association) Click here to read the article.
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ECHR Rules on Right to Manifest Religion at Work
...employment elsewhere means that there is no interference with their Convention rights. Instead that fact should be weighed in the balance when considering whether the restriction is proportionate.
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No disability discrimination where employee refused to move workstations in mistaken belief this would exacerbate her osteoarthritis
...employment tribunal ruled that it had. iForce gave the written warning because she refused to comply with an instruction to work on benches near the loading doors, which in turn arose because she beli...
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Dismissal for discussing religion with patients fair
...employment tribunal? The employment tribunal rejected this argument and ruled that her dismissal was fair. Article 9 did not apply. There is a difference between being prevented from manifesting...
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Removing Christian director who spoke out against homosexuality and same-sex adoption was lawful
...employment tribunal rejected his claim. It ruled that the Trust had not removed him because of his beliefs or because he expressed them. It had removed him because of the manner in which he expressed ...
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The power of individuals to create change
The power of individuals to create change Generation Z and workforce planning Last week saw a team of Amazon workers force the technology giant (and the country’s second largest employer) to recognis...
Lessons from the Recession Pt 2 – Dealing with Bonuses - HR MAGAZINE ONLINE
...employment or the bonus scheme. Clearly, any clawback provision should form part of the bonus scheme rules, but may only be added if the scheme rules permit changes to be incorporated without obtaini...
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First Fees Challenge Fails
...employment tribunal fees has failed. The High Court held that the fees did not act as a barrier to enforcing employment rights. Proceedings would be expensive but not to the extent that bringing a ...
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Fit for Work: the New Name for the Health and Work Service
Fit for Work: the New Name for the Health and Work Service The Government has announced that the Health and Work Service, due to be launched in late 2014, has been renamed Fit for Work. The name has ...
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Injury to feeling awards to increase
Injury to feeling awards to increase The Presidents of the Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and in Scotland are consulting on proposals to increase the bands for injury to feelings awards in ...
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Increase to injury to feelings awards from 6 April 2020
...employment tribunal claims presented on or after 6 April 2020. The new bands are as follows: Lower band of £900 to £9,000 (for less serious cases) Middle band of £9,000 to £27,000 (for case...
When lockdown is lifted - what next for your workforce?
...employment law and business practice are having to agilely adapt to this fast-evolving situation. But with the end of lockdown hopefully within sight, what does the future workplace look like? In thi...
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Dismissal - The Lack of an Appeal
Dismissal - The Lack of an Appeal In Davies v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the EAT ruled that the legitimacy of a final warning may be reassessed by a Tribunal, even when the employee has c...