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Employee Fairly Dismissed for Vulgar Facebook Postings about Colleague
Employee Fairly Dismissed for Vulgar Facebook Postings about Colleague An employment tribunal has held that the dismissal of an employee for gross misconduct after he posted vulgar comments about a c...
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EU Law Reforms Confirmed: TUPE Consultation and Working Time Record-keeping Obligations
...employment law, which also confirmed it will be making changes to holiday rights . TUPE consultation TUPE 2006 requires employers to inform and consult with appropriate representatives of ...
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Australian Employee Working Remotely from Australia Could Bring Whistleblowing Claim
...employment tribunal. The employment tribunal considered whether L fell within the expatriate employee category identified in Lawson v Serco as entitled to bring claims in employment tribunals in Gre...
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The Difficulties of Imposing Changes to Terms and Conditions
...employment contracts. The employer could only rely on the contractual right to vary if the changes to the trigger points were not detrimental. Unsurprisingly, the High Court rejected the employer’s ...
A change in the weather: TUPE and the weather presenters - as published in HR Magazine
...employment. On the other hand, employees employed directly by the Met Office involved in providing the service to the BBC may have their employment transferred to MeteoGroup under the Transfer of Und...
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Elisabeth Kynaston
...employment law, advising both organisations and individuals. Elisabeth trained at a leading regional law firm, qualifying into their employment team in February 2016. Elisabeth has experience of advi...
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Resignation Effective When Letter Opened, Not When Read by Intended Recipient
...employment tribunal on 29 April and the employer argued that it was out of time. The employment tribunal and EAT agreed. The effective date of termination was 29 January and the claim therefore neede...
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Availability of injury to feelings compensation in detrimental treatment claims
...Employment tribunals are able to order employers to pay compensation for injury to feelings in all detrimental treatment claims. Facts In South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue v Mansell, an empl...
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Protections for Zero Hours Workers in Force
Protections for Zero Hours Workers in Force The Government has introduced legislation giving zero hours workers a right of redress if their employer tries to prevent them working for anyone else. Bac...
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Buyers and incoming service providers beware! Share scheme rights arising outside of the employment contract may transfer under TUPE
...employment contract transfer to the transferee employer. Therefore, an employee whose employment transfers to a new employer under TUPE is entitled to the same terms and conditions after the transfer....
HMRC updates its guidance on the coronavirus job retention scheme
...employment law sense that are covered by the scheme. Any of the following can benefit from the scheme if they are paid via PAYE: Office holders (including company directors)Salaried membe...
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Chris Brazier
...employment law sphere and is adept at handling employment tribunal claims, primarily for employers, but also for senior employees, covering all aspects of employment protection. He has also worked clo...
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PILONs and bonus payments
...employment at the time of payment, is not entitled to a guaranteed bonus. Mr Locke was employed by Candy and Candy Limited, for just under a year. Under his Employment Contract, he was entitled to tw...
UPDATED: Coronavirus job retention scheme - what you need to know
...employment law sense that are covered by the scheme. Any of the following can benefit from the scheme if they are paid via PAYE: Office holders (including company directors)Salaried membe...
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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...
Fallout from volcanic ash creating havoc for employers
...employment provides for this. This is unlikely in the majority of cases and there will be many employers looking at their absence policy in light of these events. The situation should be treated d...
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Employer Vicariously Liable for Employee’s Assault on Customer
...employment that it would be fair and just to hold the employer liable for his acts. This involves considering: the nature of the employee’s job or field of activities involved, taking a broad approac...
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Dismissal for Derogatory Comments on Facebook Fair
...employment tribunal found the dismissal unfair. Although the employer had followed a fair procedure, the decision to dismiss was outside the band of reasonable responses. The employer had failed to...
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What are the changes to taxing termination payments from 6th April 2018?
...employment notice payWhere the employee does not work out their notice period, the employer will have to calculate the employee’s “post-employment notice pay” (PENP). This is the employee’s basic pay ...
Should employers always look on the Brightside?
...employment on 1 December 2014. From the early stages of his employment, Brightside had concerns over his performance but never raised its concerns with him. After a few months, the CEO dec...