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Careful Drafting Can Save Millions of Pounds as Dismissal of David Moyes Demonstrates
...contracts. Moyes’ £4 million-a–year contract was terminated by the club after a disastrous season which saw them lose to Sunderland in the semi-final of the Capital One Cup, to Swansea in the FA cup a...
EAT Rules on Scope of TUPE Exception
...contracts to transport school children to other schools after it was discovered that their own school had been built over a mineshaft. Before the contracts expired, Liddell’s tendered to provide a si...
The employer's guide to zero-hours contracts - as published in HR Magazine
...contracts do? Given that exclusivity bans are likely to come into force (whichever party wins the election), employers should assess whether current zero-hours contracts contain exclusivity clauses an...
No Service Provision Change Where Employee Only Worked on One Contract
No Service Provision Change Where Employee Only Worked on One Contract An employee who spent all of his time working on a contract for a particular client was not an organised grouping of employees an...
Service Provision Change Exception for Tasks of Short Term Duration
Service Provision Change Exception for Tasks of Short Term Duration An employment tribunal may take into account events following a change in service provider, when considering whether a client intend...
No Service Provision Change Where Employees “Happened” to Work on Contract
No Service Provision Change Where Employees “Happened” to Work on Contract Employees who happened to work on a particular contract because of the shift they worked were not an "organised grouping of ...
Token Sum for Holiday Pay on Termination Not Allowed
Token Sum for Holiday Pay on Termination Not Allowed An employment tribunal has ruled that employment contracts cannot provide for a token payment to be paid to an employee in respect of untaken holid...
Ban on Zero Hours Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance
...Contracts Exclusivity Clauses: Government Considers Measures to Tackle Avoidance Following on from the Government’s announcement that it plans to ban exclusivity clauses in zero hours contracts, it ha...
Volunteer Could Not Bring Disability Discrimination Claim
...contracts may be still be able to bring discrimination claims. The decision applies equally to claims under the Equality Act and to all discrimination strands, not just disability.
Termination by Payment in Lieu of Notice: When Does the Contract Terminate?
...contracts is therefore more important than ever.
Introducing Contracts Between Students and their University will Lead to More Litigation
...contracts to new students which set out what they can expect from their degree courses, including the amount of lecture time, assessment and feedback. Whilst contracts are already used in some instit...
Start Date Not Brought Forward By Attending Client Meeting
Start Date Not Brought Forward By Attending Client Meeting An employee’s start date was not brought forward by virtue of her having attended a client meeting at the employer’s request before the date ...
No Implied Term that Employee Receiving PHI Benefits Could Not be Dismissed
No Implied Term that Employee Receiving PHI Benefits Could Not be Dismissed An employee who was dismissed on ill-health grounds whilst in receipt of PHI benefits could not claim damages for lost PHI b...
Employee TUPE Transferred Despite Instruction to Remove Him From Contract
Employee TUPE Transferred Despite Instruction to Remove Him From Contract A client’s instruction to remove an employee from a contract did not have the effect of reassigning the employee away from th...
No Collective Redundancy Consultation Obligations on Expiry of Fixed-term Contracts
...Contracts Collective redundancy consultation obligations were not triggered when fixed-term contracts expired. In University of Stirling v University and College Union, the EAT had to consider ...
Protections for Zero Hours Workers in Force
...Contracts (Redress) Regulations 2015 came into force on 11 January 2016. The Regulations give employees working on zero hours contracts the right to claim unfair dismissal if they are dismissed for w...
Government considers ban on exclusivity clauses in low paid workers’ contracts
...contracts The Government has issued a consultation seeking views on its proposals to ban exclusivity clauses in low paid workers’ contracts. Under the proposals being considered, where a worker’s guar...
Inability to Control Length of Contract Meant TUPE Exception did not Apply
Inability to Control Length of Contract Meant TUPE Exception did not Apply A client’s “hope and wish” that a task will be short-term is not sufficient for it to fall within the exception in TUPE for ...
Post-termination Restrictions Agreed During Employment Unenforceable
...contracts need consideration if they are to be binding. Where employment contracts contain post-termination restrictions on joining, the employer provides consideration by agreeing to employ the emp...
Summary Dismissal Provision did not Entitle Employer to Dismiss Without Notice for Minor Breach
Summary Dismissal Provision did not Entitle Employer to Dismiss Without Notice for Minor Breach An employer was not entitled to dismiss without notice for a breach of security rules, even though the ...