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Maya Forstater wins six-figure damages award
...Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled in 2021 that her gender critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. Having won her appeal, Ms Forstater’s case returned to the Employment Tribunal...
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Refusing overseas posting because of medical concerns not disability discrimination
...Employment Tribunal? Mr Owen claimed direct and indirect disability discrimination and failure to make reasonable adjustments. The employment tribunal rejected his direct discrimination ...
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Reasonableness of Sickness Absence Investigation: Length of Service Irrelevant
Reasonableness of Sickness Absence Investigation: Length of Service Irrelevant An employment tribunal was wrong to take an employee’s long service into account when deciding whether an employer had ca...
Beware unsigned contracts when seeking to enforce post-termination restrictions
...employment contracts could face problems enforcing post-termination restrictions, as the recent case of Tenon FM Ltd v Cawley demonstrates. The case also acts as a reminder that employ...
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Covid-adjusted right to work checks extended again
...employment checking processes and carry out responsible on-boarding of their chosen provider. The Home announcement says that deferring the end date of the adjusted checks ensures that the Right ...
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Trade unions: making direct offers to employees and bypassing collective bargaining not unlawful
...Employment Appeal Tribunal. The Employment Appeal Tribunal agreed with the tribunal. It considered that an inducement is unlawful if it results in one employment term being agreed directly with the e...
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Six Year Time Limit for Equal pay Claims
...employment tribunal is six months from the end of the employment and this cannot be extended. In Birmingham City Council v Abdulla, the claimants brought equal pay claims in the High Court. They were ...
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Employment Law Reforms: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014
Employment Law Reforms: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014 Following the announcement in the Queen’s speech, the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014 has been introduce...
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Instruction Not To Speak Russian at Work Not Race Discrimination
...employment tribunal dismissed her claim and she appealed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal dismissed her appeal. The employment tribunal had been entitled to find that an instruction linked to an empl...
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£16,000 injury to feelings compensation for one-off act of harassment
...Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that an employment tribunal had been entitled to award an employee £16,000 compensation for injury to feelings for a one-off act of racial harassment. Employment tribu...
The end of Downton but not necessarily the end of an era?
...employment tribunal awarded her £183,773.53 in unpaid wages. Compensation for the rest of her claims will be decided at a further employment tribunal taking place in November. In the days of Downton, ...
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Time off for Dependants: Failure to Contact Employer as Soon as Reasonably Practicable Meant Dismissal Not Automatically Unfair
...employment tribunal concluded that E’s dismissal was not because he exercised the right to take time off for dependants but for misconduct and the dismissal was fair in the circumstances. The Employme...
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No right of appeal made dismissal unfair
...employment judge ruled that he had been dismissed for some other substantial reason (his employer’s genuine belief that his continued employment was prohibited by statute) and that his dismissal was f...
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Discriminatory pay policy justified by need to balance books
...employment tribunal claim for indirect age discrimination, arguing that the policy indirectly discriminated against the under 50s. Tribunal rules pay policy not unlawful The employment t...
Furlough extended to the end of March: what we know so far
...employment contract by agreement. They should provide the employee with written confirmation of the furlough agreement but there is no need for the employee to provide a written response. ...
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Amandeep Halet
...Employment Law since 2011 Professional memberships Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) Amandeep advises employers of all sizes and across a wide-range of sectors,...
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Enforced Subject Access Requests to be Outlawed
...Employment Practices Code makes it clear that employers who require information about criminal records should obtain it through a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Likewise the Disclosure and Ba...
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Enforced Subject Access Unlawful from 10 March 2015
...Employment Practices Code makes it clear that employers who require information about criminal records should obtain it through a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Likewise the Disclosure and Barr...
Why whistleblowing is becoming the go-to claim - as published in economia
...employment is required. Why a whistleblowing claim is attractive But it’s not just employees dismissed during the first two years of employment who will be looking at bringing a whistleblowing claim. ...
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Duty to Make Reasonable Adjustments Not Triggered Until Employee Ready to Return to Work
...employment. D claimed disability discrimination, arguing that her employer had breached the duty to make reasonable adjustments. The employment tribunal rejected her claim. The attendance policy pu...