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Employment Tribunal Claims are on the increase
The latest Employment Tribunal Statistics have been published by the Government (1) and they clearly show that they are at the highest level since the introduction of the feeSince the Supreme Court (…
Business leaders must do more to tackle sexual harassment within the workplace.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (1) (EHRC) have stated that they will take legal action against leading organisations that fail to adequately investigate, identify and address sexual harassm…
Race discrimination - Can the single comment in the workplace “go back to Poland” amount to discrimination?
The answer is yes, and both the Company and responsible Manager were held liable.The recent case at the Employment Tribunal in Liverpool Mr A Nazarczyk v T J Morris Ltd and John Cowley(1) they found…
Are the numbers of Employment tribunal cases on the increase?
Answer: yesFollowing the decision of the Supreme Court case of UNISON v Lord Chancellor [2017](1) , where it was decided that the introduction of Employment Tribunal fees were unlawful, employers and…
Can employers include previous incidents in a disciplinary investigation report
The answer is yes.In the recent Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case NHS 24 v Pillar(1) , the EAT held that it is not necessarily unfair to include additional information, such as past incident…
Holiday back pay risks to business
Another case at the Court of Appeal(1) where the individual is not an employee but is deemed to have ‘worker’ and the case was in relation to holiday pay and what could be carried over if the individ…
What is the Gender Pay Gap and where are we?
Campaign groups have said it will take 100 years to close the gap in pay and in some parts of the UK, the gender pay gap is so wide, it is as though women work unpaid from September. The Gender pay g…
Height Requirement for Police is Indirectly Discriminatory against Women
Is the Greek government's regulation imposing the same minimum height requirement to join the police of 170 cm for both men and women unjustifiable indirect discrimination? Yes, is the long and short…
Failure to conduct Risk Assessment for Breastfeeding Mother
The Claimant was a nurse working in a hospital's accident and emergency unit. She claimed sex discrimination as her employer's risk assessment for her as a breastfeeding worker had concluded, without…
Limits on Employers and reasonableness of the dismissal
In misconduct cases, a dismissal is fair if the employer believed the employee to be guilty of the misconduct in question; had reasonable grounds for that belief; and carried out a reasonable investi…
Employment Tribunal Time Limits
Q: Can an appellant to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) rely on vague medical evidence to get an extension of time for a late appeal?A: No, as held by the EAT in J v K & Anor …
Case Law: Gender Pay Gap Data must be published by law
After the introduction of the gender pay gap regulations (1) recently, the government has launched a gender pay gap “viewing service (2)” giving the public access to the information that companie…
