Employment and HR

• Low-Paid Workers’ Union Triumphs in COVID-19 Health and Safety Test Case

  • Posted14 January 2021

  Many low-paid workers who have an essential role in keeping the nation moving are at particularly high risk from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a ground-breaking decision, the High Court came...

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• Succession Planning Good, Age Discrimination Bad – EAT Ruling

  • Posted6 January 2021

  Any organisation that does not have an effective system of succession planning in place must face an uncertain future. As a ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) underlined, however,...

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• ET Recognises Stoicism as a Protected Philosophical Belief

  • Posted18 December 2020

  Stoicism is a 2,300-year-old system of ethics which guided the steps of such giants of classical history as Seneca and the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Its adherents may nowadays be few...

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• Doctor’s Race Discrimination Claims Prematurely Struck Out

  • Posted4 December 2020

  Discriminatory acts or omissions may be seen as one-off incidents or as a sequence giving rise to a continuing discriminatory state of affairs. As an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling...

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• New National Minimum Wage Rates from April 2021

  • Posted27 November 2020

  The Government has accepted the recommendations of the Low Pay Commission as regards the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates that will apply with effect...

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• Sacked Marketing Director’s Re-Engagement ‘Impracticable’, EAT Rules

  • Posted13 November 2020

  An award of compensation is the most common remedy granted in cases of unfair dismissal, but Employment Tribunals (ETs) also have the power to order reinstatement or re-engagement of wronged...

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