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Whistleblowing Public Interest Test Satisfied by Employee Raising Contractual Matter Affecting Group of Employees
...employment. The fact that it also affected other employees was not sufficient. There was no public interest. Decision Mr Underwood appealed. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned the emplo...
Intention to Compete is not Gross Misconduct
Intention to Compete is not Gross Misconduct An employment tribunal had been wrong to find dismissals fair where employees were dismissed for planning to set up in competition and using company resour...
Employee Bound by Restrictive Covenants in Unsigned Contract
Employee Bound by Restrictive Covenants in Unsigned Contract An employee who failed to sign a new employment contract containing restrictive covenants issued to him on promotion was still bound by the...
Beware of Obligation to Provide Agency Worker Information
...employment tribunal upheld the claim and awarded a protective award of 45 days’ full pay in respect of each employee made redundant. Commenting on the decision, Tina Wisener said: “The employment tri...
Employer Not Liable for Discriminatory Term in Permanent Health Insurance Policy
...employment tribunal also ruled that even if there had been less favourable caused by the employer, it would have been justified as all PHI insurance policies contain a similar term. The Employment App...
Injury to Feelings Award Not Taxable
...employment was not taxable. In Timothy James Consulting v Wilton, W was awarded £10,000 for injury to feelings in respect of discrimination connected with the termination of her employment, as well as...
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 ...
Employer not liable for harassment when employee shared racially offensive Facebook post
...Employment tribunal rejects harassment claim: employee not acting in the course of employment Mr Forbes brought a tribunal claim against his employer, including a claim for harassment. The employment...
Employers Can Rely on Last Straw Doctrine to Dismiss with Immediate Effect
Employers Can Rely on Last Straw Doctrine to Dismiss with Immediate Effect The High Court has held that employers are entitled to rely on the last straw doctrine to dismiss an employee with immediate ...
Workers Deprived of Rest Breaks Not Entitled to Injury to Feelings Compensation
...Employment Appeal Tribunal has rejected an employee’s argument that compensation for failing to provide rest breaks can included compensation for injury to feelings. Speedread The Employment Appeal T...
Six Year Time Limit for Equal Pay Claims Following Supreme Court Ruling
...employment tribunal where the time limit for bringing the claim is six months after the employment ends. Tribunals are not able to extend this time limit. The claimants only became aware of their po...
Rest Break Not Interrupted by Attendance at Union Meeting
...employment tribunal ruled that time spent on trade union duties or activities was not “working time” for the purposes of the Working Time Regulations 1998 (“WTR”). Working time is defined as “any per...
Dismissal for Refusing to Leave Husband was Religious Discrimination
...Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) overturned the employment tribunal’s decision. The employment tribunal had taken the wrong approach to the issue of comparative disadvantage. It should have consider...
Employers must be pro-active in enabling staff to take holiday, ECJ rules
...employment he requested a payment in lieu of the holiday he had not taken. His employer refused. In Shimizu v Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, two months before the end of his employment, Mr ...
Holidays for Sick Workers
Holidays for Sick Workers In Adams v Harwich International Port Ltd, the employment tribunal ruled that workers who were unable or unwilling to take their statutory holiday entitlement because of sick...
Employee Entitled to PILON Despite Prior Gross Misconduct
...employment immediately, using a payment in lieu (PILON) provision in the contract which allowed it terminate with immediate effect by paying six months’ salary and benefits in lieu of notice. It...
Award of Seven Weeks’ Pay for Election Failures Too High
...employment tribunal did not criticise the quality or content of the consultation itself, but upheld the claim that the employer had failed to ensure a fair election process. The tribunal awarded seve...
Resigning Employee Held to Contract Without Pay
...employment contract. As he did not return to work following his purported resignation, he was not entitled to be paid as he was not ready and willing to work. In Sunrise Brokers LLP v Rodgers, R’s c...
Duty to Make Reasonable Adjustments Did Not Require Employer to Ignore Final Written Warning for Absence
...employment tribunal upheld his claims, finding that it would have been a reasonable adjustment for the employer to ignore the final written warning. Having disregarded the two short periods of disabi...
Employer not fixed with knowledge of employee’s disability
...employment tribunal decided that this was not a case where the employer ought reasonably to have known that she was disabled. The Employment Appeal Tribunal rejected her appeal and s...