HR Articles

A discriminatory disciplinary process led to an employee who worked at a Subway sandwich store being awarded £15,484 by an Employment Tribunal.

A recent Tribunal decision has held that time spent in ACAS Early Conciliation (“EC”) before a limitation period starts cannot extend the time limit for bringing a claim.

Regulation 11 of TUPE states that prior to a transfer, the transferor must provide information including particulars of employment to the transferee.

The number of employees who describe themselves as “usually” working from home has increased by almost 20% over the last decade according to research carried out by the TUC in 2016.

The case of O’Brien v Bolton St Catherine’s Academy concerned a teacher who, after 14 months of absence following an assault by a pupil, was dismissed.

For there to be a service provision change under TUPE, there must, immediately before the transfer, be an organised grouping of employees situated in Great Britain which has as its ‘principal purpose’ the carrying out of the activities on behalf of the client.

With emotions running high on both sides, an increase in racial abuse and hate crime has been reported since the UK voted to leave the EU.

We wrote last year about two cases concerning individual female Muslim employees who wished to wear a headscarf at work. In each case, this was not permitted by the employer and each employee was dismissed.

The Equality Act 2010, which sets out the legal protections against discrimination, defines employment as “employment under a contract of employment, a contract of apprenticeship or a contract personally to do work.”

The 2017 Spring Budget was announced by the Chancellor Phillip Hammond and except for the self-employed, the changes were seen to be fairly uneventful from an employment law perspective.