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HSE Announces Results of Asbestos Management in Schools Inspections 2013/14
...schools between April 2013 and January 2014, which included independent, voluntary aided and foundation schools, free schools and academies. 71 per cent of schools inspected required either no further...
Charity in Court After Child Lost Finger in School Door
...schools plays an important role in ensuring a safe environment for children to learn and develop. Ensuring children’s safety is required by law and is an integral part of the Ofsted framework. Childre...
Health and Safety Myths
Health and Safety Myths The Health and Safety Executive regularly publishes answers from its health and safety Myth Busting Challenge Panel. We take a look at a recent issues considered. Can you stoc...
Using Secret Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings – What’s the Legal Position?
Using Secret Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings – What’s the Legal Position? With technology developing all the time it has never been easier for employees to make secret recordings of ...
Covert Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings Could be Relied On
Covert Recordings of Disciplinary and Grievance Hearings Could be Relied On An employee who made covert recordings of both public and private panel discussions at grievance and disciplinary hearings h...
Strike season and childcare – how to come out on top - as published in HR Review
Strike season and childcare – how to come out on top - as published in HR Review The latest tube strike may have been called off, but there is another strike planned just around the corner. This time,...
Dismissal Based on Allegation of Historical Sexual Abuse Unfair
Dismissal Based on Allegation of Historical Sexual Abuse Unfair The dismissal of a caretaker for some other substantial reason, based on police information that an allegation had been made against him...
The Christmas nightmare: A manager’s guide - as published in HR Magazine
...schools have only just released the dates so there was no opportunity to give greater notice. Employment contracts will normally state that holiday can only be taken with the company's prior consent, ...
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...
Re-engagement Order Upheld Despite Breakdown in Working Relationship
Re-engagement Order Upheld Despite Breakdown in Working Relationship An employment tribunal had been entitled to make a re-engagement order, despite a breakdown in the relationship. In Oasis Communit...
EAT Rules on Scope of TUPE Exception
...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 similar service for the 2011/12 academic year. Th...
Is it premature to submit a claim during a notice period?
Is it premature to submit a claim during a notice period? In July, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) heard an appeal by The Governing Body of Wishmorecross School against a decision of the employme...
Disciplinary proceedings: Legal representation at public sector internal disciplinary hearings
Disciplinary proceedings: Legal representation at public sector internal disciplinary hearings In R (on the application of G) v Governors of X School, the Supreme Court (formerly the House of Lords)...
Race discrimination: A row about cornrows
Race discrimination: A row about cornrows In G v St Gregory’s Catholic Science College, the High Court concluded that the College’s dress code policy, which prevented boys from having a cornrows ha...
Dismissal - The Lack of an Appeal
Dismissal - The Lack of an Appeal In Davies v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, the EAT ruled that the legitimacy of a final warning may be reassessed by a Tribunal, even when the employee has c...
Disability Discrimination: Expensive adjustments were not reasonable
Disability Discrimination: Expensive adjustments were not reasonable In Cordell v Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), an employment tribunal has found that FCO did not breach its duty to make reas...
Serial Litigants: The tide is turning
Serial Litigants: The tide is turning In February 2010, The Times newspaper reported the antics of John Berry, aged 54. He apparently scours the internet for discriminatory job adverts calling for a...
Discrimination: Damages Should be Apportioned
Discrimination: Damages Should be Apportioned In Thaine v London School of Economics, the EAT has confirmed that when an employee's psychiatric injury has been caused by a number of factors, includin...
Sex Discrimination: Some Guidance on Awards and Recommendations
Sex Discrimination: Some Guidance on Awards and Recommendations In The Governing Body of St Andrew's Catholic School and others v Blundell, the EAT has provided some useful guidance in respect of com...
Unauthorised absences – is there a right to receive pay?
...schools of thought exist: The first view (shared by the author) is that, absent any relevant provision in the contract, there is no implied right to be paid for any period when an employee is unable ...