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High Court Orders Destruction of Confidential Information on Defendants’ Computers
High Court Orders Destruction of Confidential Information on Defendants’ Computers The High Court has ordered the destruction of any confidential information found on electronic devices and computers ...
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Asserted Disability Insufficient for Disability Harassment Claim
...employment tribunal agreed and upheld his claim, ruling that that informing him of the covert surveillance was disability harassment. It also upheld his victimisation claim. Decision The Employment ...
The Regulatory References Regime in the Financial Services Sector
...employment to warning shots to prospective employers ensuring that historic misconduct is brought to bear. The new regime is designed to prevent the so-called “rolling bad apple” effect: individuals w...
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Consultation on the new right to carer’s leave
...employment rights, such as the right to take unpaid time off to deal with emergencies involving dependants. Relationship with the person being cared for The government proposes that right sho...
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Employment tribunal rules chair of regulator’s disciplinary tribunal is a worker
Employment tribunal rules chair of regulator’s disciplinary tribunal is a worker An employment tribunal has ruled that a barrister appointed as a tribunal chair for the Nursing and Midwifery Council (...
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Government announces six-month grace period for gender pay gap reporting
...employment experts can assist if you need any help with your gender pay gap reporting or producing an accompanying narrative.
Returning to the workplace after lockdown - what employers need to consider
...employment experts Alison Garrow (Legal Director) and Naomi Jameson (Legal Director) will cover the following topics around the return to the office: Communicating the road map for moving back to the...
Omicron variant: changes to Covid rules
Omicron variant: changes to Covid rules Government announces Covid rule changes Following identification of a new Covid variant (Omicron), the UK Government has announced changes to the self-isolatio...
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Employers need to revisit their data protection practices as Covid-19 measures are relaxed
...employment law and employment contracts (where employers are considering checking employees’ COVID status) health and safety requirements and equalities and human rights, including privacy right...
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Immigration: Dismissing employees with uncertain immigration status
Immigration: Dismissing employees with uncertain immigration status In Kurumuth v NHS Trust North Middlesex University Hospital , the EAT found that it was reasonable for the Trust to dismiss Ms Kuru...
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Injury to feelings awards: increases from 6 April 2018
...Employment Tribunals in England and Wales and Scotland. The new bands will be: A lower band of £900 to £8,600 (for less serious cases).A middle band of £8,600 to £25,700 (for cases...
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Workers entitled to itemised pay slips from April 2019
Workers entitled to itemised pay slips from April 2019 Entitlement for workers to a pay slip from April 2019. Currently employees have the right to receive an itemised pay statement showi...
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National Minimum Wage not payable for sleep-in shifts
...Employment Tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) upheld her claim, ruling that she was working for the whole of the shift. Mencap appealed to the Court of Appeal. Decision&...
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Further details of parental bereavement leave and pay announced
Further details of parental bereavement leave and pay announced The Government has provided further details of the new right to parental bereavement leave and pay, coming into force in 2020. Which pa...
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Time limit points can’t be raised for first time at remedy hearing
Time limit points can’t be raised for first time at remedy hearing The Employment Appeal Tribunal has confirmed a tribunal cannot overturn a judgment on liability at a remedy hearing by considering a ...
Bonuses: Discretionary vs Contractual explained
...employment contract. This makes finding a contractual right much more straightforward. However, more often than not, employment contracts state that any bonus is discretionary and Rose is going to exp...
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Retiring the mandatory retirement age – not the Professors!
Retiring the mandatory retirement age – not the Professors! Employment Tribunal finds Oxford's mandatory retirement age is not justified In September 2022, we asked the question, Is it time to retire...
Unauthorised absences – is there a right to receive pay?
...employment law requires the employee to present himself fit and ready to provide his skills and services and at that point the onus switches to the employer to pay the employee. The opposing view is ...
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Associative Discrimination: What Degree of Association is Required?
...employment tribunal ruled that a claim of associative victimisation can be brought and the company did not appeal this part of the decision. However, it went on to rule that the link or association b...
If your holiday year doesn’t run from January to December – Read this!
...employment start date (administratively this must be a nightmare!) Employers with an April to March holiday year will find themselves in a peculiar situation for 2016 through to 2018. Remember that ...