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Resignation Effective When Letter Opened, Not When Read by Intended Recipient
Resignation Effective When Letter Opened, Not When Read by Intended Recipient Where an employee resigned with immediate effect by letter to her employer, the termination took effect on the date the le...
Employers can be Vicariously Liable for Non-Employees
Employers can be Vicariously Liable for Non-Employees A Diocese has been found to be vicariously liable for the tortious acts of a priest even though he was not their employee. In JGE v The Trustees ...
Employer Not Entitled to Award Lower of Two Pay Increases
...contracts and ensuring that provisions are not ambiguous. It is likely that the intention of the parties in this case was that the employees should be entitled to the higher increase. Either way, th...
Do Not Assume Dismissal for Gross Misconduct is Always Fair
Do Not Assume Dismissal for Gross Misconduct is Always Fair Dismissal of an employee for gross misconduct after a reasonable investigation does not necessarily fall within the band of reasonable resp...
Negotiating severance packages: you can’t pick and choose
Negotiating severance packages: you can’t pick and choose The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled that an employer is not expected to honour the agreed parts of an employee’s severance package while ...
Alison Garrow
...contracts and can advise on how to handle and provide for these risks. Notable pieces of recent work include tribunal litigation concerning an employee’s use of social media and the impact that h...
Kathy Scott
...contracts, and absence and disciplinary letters for global employers new to the UK employment marketWorking on a client site for a number of months investigating cultural and disciplinary issues,...
Jonny Robinson
Jonny Robinson Jonny is a Legal Advisor in the Education team. He also assists lawyers with a wide range of Employment, Data Protection and High Court matters. Jonny has a particular interest in disab...
Employer Entitled to Choose Between Pay Increase Options
Employer Entitled to Choose Between Pay Increase Options An employer which agreed two options for a pay increase with a union was entitled to award the lower of the two. In Anderson v London Fire &am...
Employment Law Reforms: Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill 2014
...contracts; Deter breaches of National Minimum Wage laws by amending the power to set the maximum penalty for underpayment so that it can be set on a per worker basis. This means that employers face ...
Death of employee results in a six-month custodial sentence
Death of employee results in a six-month custodial sentence A self-employed contractor has been sentenced after an employee was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him. The self-emp...
Tax and NICs Treatment of Termination Payments: Government Response to Consultation
Tax and NICs Treatment of Termination Payments: Government Response to Consultation The Government has issued its response to its consultation on simplifying the tax and National Insurance treatment o...
Harpur Trust holiday pay case to be heard by the Supreme Court
Harpur Trust holiday pay case to be heard by the Supreme Court Many schools will be relieved to hear that the Supreme Court has now given permission to hear an appeal in the key holiday pay case of Ha...
PHI: Holiday is not payable for those who agree to PHI
PHI: Holiday is not payable for those who agree to PHI In Souter v Royal College of Nursing Scotland, the ET found that Ms Souter, who had received an income under a permanent health insurance (PHI) s...
Sacked because of Facebook
Sacked because of Facebook In Preece v JD Wetherspoons plc, an ET decided that Ms Preece, a pub manager, was fairly dismissed for gross misconduct having made inappropriate comments on Facebook about...
TUPE Applies to Sales by Administrators
...contracts do not transfer on a sale of the assets. ‘Non-terminal’ proceedings are those where the primary aim is the rescue of the business. In such cases, employees will transfer but there is greater...
Bankers Entitled to Share of EUR400m Bonus Pool
Bankers Entitled to Share of EUR400m Bonus Pool An employer’s announcement to employees of a guaranteed minimum bonus pool of EUR400 million, to be allocated on a discretionary basis according to ind...
Wide Non-Solicitation Covenant Enforced
Wide Non-Solicitation Covenant Enforced A non-solicitation covenant has been found to be reasonable, even though it was not limited to customers the employee had dealt with directly during a specifie...
Women on Boards: Report Calls for Strengthening of Executive Search Firm Code
...contracts that they will comply with all aspects of the voluntary code and explain if unable to do so; A database of women with the skills to take a FTSE 350 board position should be created; The c...
No Appeal Against Overtime Back Pay Ruling
No Appeal Against Overtime Back Pay Ruling It is understood that Unite has confirmed there will be no appeal against the Employment Appeal Tribunal’s ruling which limited a worker’s ability to claim p...