Employment and HR

• EAT Criticises Perfunctory Treatment of Sacked Property Manager

  • Posted9 March 2017

  In a recent case (Thomas v BNP Paribas Real Estate Advisory and Property Management UK Limited), a senior property management company employee who was made redundant in an insensitive and...

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• Sacked Maritime Armed Guard Has Compensation Hopes Boosted

  • Posted28 February 2017

  Where there is a complaint of misconduct, an employer will not normally be judged to have acted reasonably unless a full and fair investigation into the circumstances is carried out,...

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• New Minimum Wage Rates

  • Posted21 February 2017

  The Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his Autumn Statement that the following changes to the National Living Wage (NLW) and the National Minimum Wage (NMW) will come into effect...

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• Disability Discrimination – A Question of Cause and Effect

  • Posted17 February 2017

  Findings of disability discrimination require proof not only of unfavourable treatment but also of a causal connection between that treatment and a person’s disability. That point was thrown into relief...

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• Government Review of Employment Tribunal Fees

  • Posted15 February 2017

  The Ministry of Justice has published its long-awaited review of Employment Tribunal (ET) fees, which were introduced in July 2013. This concluded that the objectives for the introduction of...

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• Dismissal When Final Written Warning ‘Manifestly Inappropriate’

  • Posted8 February 2017

  Workplace disciplinary processes often have a number of distinct phases, and legal errors in any one of them can be enough to infect the whole. That point was made in...

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