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General Election 2024: What changes can employers expect?

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With a new Labour Government, what changes can employer expect regarding employment and immigration laws.

Successful strike out of all claims by a scandalous litigant

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An Employment Tribunal has ruled a strike out of all claims by reason of the Claimant’s scandalous and unreasonable conduct of the proceedings and the claims having no reasonable prospect for success, in the case of Ms L Gallagher v Essity UK Ltd.

Labour’s New Deal for Working People

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The Labour party has published its Plan to Make Work Pay: Delivering a New Deal for Working People setting out it plans for reforms to employment laws.

25% Protective Award Uplift for Failure to Follow Dismissal and Re-engagement Code

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The Government has published draft legislation which gives employment tribunals the power to increase a protective award by up to 25% where an employer has unreasonably failed to follow the Code.

Carl Borg-Neal awarded £486,000 for unfair dismissal

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Following the Employment Tribunal’s (“the ET”) ruling in August 2023, Doyle Clayton client, Carl Borg-Neal, has been awarded £486,000 (net before interest and tax – likely to be over £800,000 total award) for being unfairly dismissed by Lloyds Banking Group PLC (“the Bank”) for using the N-word during an anti-racism training session.

Telephone application ruled a reasonable adjustment for job applicant with dyspraxia

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Employment tribunal rules AECOM breached its duty to make reasonable adjustments when it insisted that a job applicant with dyspraxia complete a job application online.

Agency workers to be banned from covering for striking workers (once again)

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From 10 August 2023, employment business will be prohibited from supplying agency workers to cover the duties of workers taking part in industrial action.

Government responds to consultation on non-compete clauses

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The Government has responded to its 2020 consultation on reforming non-compete clauses in employment contracts.

Failure to consider furlough meant redundancy dismissal was unfair

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The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld an employment tribunal ruling that an employee’s redundancy dismissal was unfair as the employer did not consider furlough as an alternative to dismissal.

Non-compete restrictions to be limited to three months

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The Government has announced its intention to bring in legislation which will limit the length of non-compete clauses in employment contracts to three months.