Employment and HR

• NHS Trust Pays Price for Manager’s Practical Joke on Stressed Employee

  • Posted21 May 2021

  Horseplay in any working environment is laden with risk for employers and that is certainly true of practical jokes. An Employment Tribunal (ET) resoundingly made that point in awarding almost...

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• Policies Restricting Employee Social Media Usage Can Be Legally Fraught

  • Posted5 May 2021

  Policies which seek to restrain employees’ inappropriate use of social media may seem sensible but they can be fraught with legal difficulties and require careful drafting by a professional. In...

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• Equality and Diversity Training Needs Regular Refreshment to Be Effective

  • Posted15 April 2021

  The provision of workplace equality and diversity training can afford employers a powerful defence in employment proceedings. As one case showed, however, such training is wont to become stale in...

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• Racism on the Shop Floor – Employers Can Expect to Carry the Can

  • Posted6 April 2021

  Some shop floors are rough and ready places where foul language abounds, but if a worker makes a racist or other discriminatory comment it is likely to be the employer...

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• Severe Menopausal Symptoms Can Amount to a Disability, ET Rules

  • Posted15 March 2021

  The word ‘disability’ may summon images of people suffering from grave physical incapacity but, in employment law terms, it has a much broader meaning than that. In an employment case...

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• Employer Brought to Book for Maternity/Pregnancy Discrimination

  • Posted5 March 2021

  Employers who are found to have discriminated on the grounds of pregnancy or maternity will swiftly be brought to book. That was certainly so in the case of a tanning...

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