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Coronavirus Immigration Update
...employment. Note that the Home Office guidance was issued on 30 March 2020 and does not say that it applies retrospectively. So, it is not clear whether employers who followed a right to work check p...
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Government confirms plans to remove ban on agency workers covering striking workers
...employment agency sector standing to see an increase in demand from the change, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC), which represents thousands of UK recruiters including many of the bi...
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Employers must recalculate statutory holiday entitlement when working hours increase
...employment tribunal claim. She argued that her statutory holiday entitlement should be recalculated following an increase in her working hours and that her new working hours should be used to calcula...
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Employer cannot hide behind manufactured reason for dismissal adopted by decision-maker
...employment for poor performance. Courts disagree over reason for dismissal: performance or whistleblowing? Ms Jhuti claimed detrimental treatment and automatic unfair dismissal on whistl...
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Shared Parental Leave and Pay: Draft Regulations Published
...employment during shared parental leave, the right to return, rights on redundancy and protection from detriment and dismissal, all of which are similar to the current provisions for maternity, adopti...
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TUPE: Administrative Changes amount to “Measures”
...Employment) Regulations 2006. Mr Todd was the owner of a care home. In November 2007, Mr Todd announced the sale of the care home to Care Concern. No detailed information was given at the meeting, wh...
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Unfair dismissal: Offensive emails
Unfair dismissal: Offensive emails In Gosden v Lifeline Project Ltd, an Employment Tribunal found that an employee was dismissed fairly for sending an offensive e-mail from his home computer to his c...
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Dismissal: When does notice start?
Dismissal: When does notice start? In Wang v University of Keele, the EAT has confirmed that, unless an employment contract provides otherwise, contractual notice will run from the day after the noti...
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TUPE: No Service Provision Change if Client Changes Too
...employment transferred to Taurus under TUPE but Taurus disagreed and his employment was terminated. The tribunal considered whether there had been a service provision change under TUPE – i.e whether ...
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Victimisation Taking Place After Termination is Unlawful
...employment has terminated and before the Equality Act 2010 was enacted, the discrimination legislation clearly made this unlawful. Due to the drafting of the relevant provisions of the Equality Act, ...
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National recognition for Doyle Clayton’s Education team
...employment and workplace law advice to the education sector. It has been shortlisted by The Legal 500 in its 2018 Annual Awards for its education work. The team was set up in 2014 by partner Si...
Startups: Plan ahead to avoid costly legal disputes (part IV)
...employment a statement of written terms and conditions of employment to include things like job title or description, salary, holiday entitlement, sick pay etc. That said, it is better for you to incl...
Right to Work Checks - changes from 6 April
...employment and for a further 2 years after their employment has ended (or longer, if required by another organisation e.g. HMRC, the DWP or a regulator). They should be stored securely in hard copy or...
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UK’s post-Brexit immigration system: Government publishes key policy statement
UK’s post-Brexit immigration system: Government publishes key policy statement “Take Back Control!” was the rallying cry of the Pro Leave campaign. The Government’s latest policy statement on the UK’s...
The Immigration Act 2016 – illegal working, business closure notices and compliance orders…..
The Immigration Act 2016 – illegal working, business closure notices and compliance orders….. As part of continued measures to deter and tackle illegal working in the UK, the government has introduced...
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P&O redundancies: what are the legal implications?
...employment law on collective redundancies in general? P&O; and redundancies P&O; openly and knowingly breached its legal obligations regarding collective redundancy consultation. Where an employer ...
Working ‘When Required’ - as published in the Law Society Gazette
...employment lawyers the contracts even raise a core conundrum of whether the worst of such contracts can amount to an employment relationship at all, given that obligations to provide and perform work ...
You’re Fired! Five top tips on getting it right
...employment and as ever, there is no substitute for the assistance of an experienced employment lawyer.
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Advantageous treatment was not unfavourable treatment even though it could have been more advantageous
...employment tribunal upheld his claim, finding that he had been treated unfavourably and the treatment was not justified. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned the employment tri...
Startups: Plan ahead to avoid costly legal disputes (Part I)
...Employment or consultancy obligations You may currently work for an employer or be engaged as a consultant by a principal. In either of those cases you may have signed up to an agreement which restric...