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Employment and HR
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A nursing home care assistant who was paid less than she was contractually entitled to – and was discriminated against by her employer after she became pregnant – has won...
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In an unusual case, which shows how important it is to act quickly if an employee breaches his or her contract of employment, a Blackpool stage company paid a heavy...
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Just because an employee is partially to blame for his or her own dismissal does not make it fair. In one case that made that point, a university professor won...
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In the recent case of Bartholomews Agri Food Limited v Thornton, the High Court found that a restrictive covenant included in the contract of employment of an agronomist from the...
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Constructive dismissal occurs when an employee resigns and can demonstrate that he or she is entitled to do so because the employer shows by their conduct that they no longer...
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Members of limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are not ’employees’, but they are ‘workers’ and are thus entitled to all the legal protections afforded by the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment...
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