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Whistleblowing: disclosures made in defence of poor performance could still be in the public interest
Whistleblowing: disclosures made in defence of poor performance could still be in the public interest An employment tribunal had applied the public interest test incorrectly when ruling an employee wh...
Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) and the GMP Equalisation Process
Guaranteed Minimum Pensions (GMPs) and the GMP Equalisation Process What are GMPs? Between 6 April 1978 and 5 April 1997, individuals could pay higher national insurance contributions to build up ent...
Declan Bradley
Declan Bradley Based in both the City and the UK's South West Declan is an Employment Lawyer with a focus on advising employers and senior executives across a range of industries including technology,...
Acas Code Applied to Dismissal for Some Other Substantial Reason
Acas Code Applied to Dismissal for Some Other Substantial Reason The Acas Code of Practice on Disciplinary Procedures applied to a dismissal for some other substantial reason where disciplinary procee...
Failure to Allow Grievance Appeal to Different Manager May Give Grounds for Constructive Dismissal
Failure to Allow Grievance Appeal to Different Manager May Give Grounds for Constructive Dismissal The EAT has held that an employer’s failure to stick to its grievance procedure can amount to a brea...
Confusion Caused by Employer Results in Claim Being Out of Time
Confusion Caused by Employer Results in Claim Being Out of Time An employee’s employment terminated when she informed her employer that she had no alternative but to resign. The fact that the employe...
Future of £30,000 Tax Exemption for Termination Payments in Doubt
Future of £30,000 Tax Exemption for Termination Payments in Doubt The Office for Tax Simplification (“OTS”) has proposed that the current £30,000 tax exemption for termination payments should be scrap...
Hannah Mathews
...contracts and settlement agreement terms. Hannah’s work for individuals includes advising a group of senior individuals named as respondents in a whistleblowing claim (valued by the claimant i...
UK Must Protect Against Dismissal on Grounds of Political Beliefs
UK Must Protect Against Dismissal on Grounds of Political Beliefs The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that UK law is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights as it doe...
Corbyn v Smith: employment law proposals
...contracts, provide employment rights from day one, repeal the Trade Union Act 2016 and abolish employment tribunal fees. Owen Smith’s other proposals Owen Smith has announced 25 workplace pledges i...
Successful appeal meant no dismissal
Successful appeal meant no dismissal If an employee exercises a contractual right of appeal and the appeal is upheld, the dismissal has no effect and so the employee cannot claim unfair dismissal.&nbs...
ACAS conciliation: importance of conciliating against correct respondent
ACAS conciliation: importance of conciliating against correct respondent The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an employment tribunal’s refusal to add a respondent where the claimant had not obtained ...
Extra wage support announced for businesses shut down due to Covid restrictions
Extra wage support announced for businesses shut down due to Covid restrictions The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced an extension to the Job Support Scheme for businesses legally required t...
Peter Daly
Peter Daly Peter is one of the UK's leading employment lawyers and specialises in advising individuals as well as organisations. Peter Daly is an employment lawyer with a track record of pursuing high...
Gay head teacher succeeds in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims due to biased disciplinary process
Gay head teacher succeeds in unfair dismissal and discrimination claims due to biased disciplinary process Serious failings and bias throughout the disciplinary process entitled a gay head teacher to ...
Government confirms detail of private sector IR35 reforms
...contracts with and each party will have to cascade this down the labour supply chain until it reaches the fee payer. Who is responsible for any unpaid tax and NIC’s? A party that fails t...
Adam Murdoch
Adam Murdoch Adam is an experienced Legal Director. He advises businesses and individuals throughout the UK on a full range of employment and related issues. Prior to joining Doyle Clayton, Adam worke...
Unpaid interns can have rights
Unpaid interns can have rights In Keri Hudson v TPG Web Publishing Limited, Ms Hudson worked as an unpaid intern for TPG, a publishing company. The ET found that she was in fact a “worker” and ther...
TUPE: Services provided after a change in service provision
TUPE: Services provided after a change in service provision Under Regulation 3(1)(b) of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) a transfer occurs where:“activit...
Employee Who Objected to TUPE Transfer Not Protected Against Discrimination by Transferee
Employee Who Objected to TUPE Transfer Not Protected Against Discrimination by Transferee An employee who objected to the transfer of her employment under TUPE could not bring a discrimination claim a...