Employment and HR

• Employee Shareholder Status Impacts Unfair Dismissal Claim

  • Posted2 December 2019

  Few employees would say no if offered shares in the companies for which they work. However, as an important decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) showed, accepting such offers...

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• Vegetarianism is Not a Protected Characteristic, ET Rules

  • Posted18 November 2019

  People have all sorts of reasons for choosing not to eat meat, and that prompted an Employment Tribunal (ET) to rule that vegetarianism is a lifestyle choice, rather than a...

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• Employers Cannot Be Forced to Re-Engage Unfairly Dismissed Workers

  • Posted31 October 2019

  Can Employment Tribunals (ETs) or the courts force employers to re-engage employees who have been unfairly dismissed? In a ground-breaking decision, the Court of Appeal has answered that question in...

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• Employer Not Liable for Worker’s Offensive Facebook Post

  • Posted18 October 2019

  Under Section 109(1) of the Equality Act 2010, anything done by a person in the course of their employment must be treated as also done by the employer. That is...

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• Hospital Whistleblower Compensated for Detrimental Treatment

  • Posted4 October 2019

  Workplace whistleblowers who act in the public interest by exposing wrongdoing are protected by the full force of the law. In a case on point, a hospital worker who endured...

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• Constructive Knowledge – Employer Defeats Claim Thanks to Reasonableness Test

  • Posted19 September 2019

  Under Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010, an employer’s duty to make reasonable adjustments for an employee who is disabled is only triggered if the employer has actual knowledge...

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