Employment and HR

• 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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• Can Dismissal Without Any Disciplinary Process Ever Be Fair?

  • Posted28 October 2020

  Can a dismissal ever be fair if formal disciplinary procedures are dispensed with? A tribunal addressed that issue in the case of a senior railway company employee who was sacked...

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• Privacy v Public Justice – Transgender Claimant Wins Anonymity Order

  • Posted12 October 2020

  It is a fundamental feature of any free society that justice must be done in public, but how does that principle sit with the right of individuals not to have...

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• Boss’s Ignorant Response to Employee’s Progressive Condition Proves Costly

  • Posted2 October 2020

  Employers who fail to provide support and understanding to sick workers can expect to pay a high price, both in financial and reputational terms. An Employment Tribunal (ET) made that...

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• Elite Cyclist Jess Varnish ‘Neither a Worker Nor an Employee’, Tribunal Rules

  • Posted22 September 2020

  What is an employee? What is a worker? The answer to those perennially tricky questions has been illuminated by a ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) that elite cyclist...

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