Employment and HR

• Farming Company Fined Over Worker’s Death

  • Posted9 September 2014

  A farming company in Cheshire has been fined £50,000 after a 30-year-old worker suffered fatal injuries when a 1.5 tonne concrete panel fell on him. Sean Bennett was helping...

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• Covert Recordings of Grievance and Disciplinary Hearings

  • Posted29 August 2014

  In a further case on the admissibility as evidence before the Employment Tribunal (ET) of an employee’s covert recordings of grievance and disciplinary hearings, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled...

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• Policeman Sacking Case Reaches Employment Appeals Tribunal

  • Posted18 August 2014

  A whistleblowing ex-policeman was sacked not because of his protected disclosures but due to his pursuit of complaints in a way that was ‘sufficient to try and to exhaust the...

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• Does the Equality Act of 2010 protect Ex-employees from victimisation?

  • Posted8 August 2014

  The Equality Act 2010 contains measures that protect employees from victimisation for having made a complaint of unlawful discrimination, but does that protection extend to events that take place after...

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• Whistleblowing – Government Consults on Annual Reporting by Prescribed Persons

  • Posted6 August 2014

  The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill, which is currently before Parliament, contains provisions enabling the Secretary of State to require prescribed persons to report annually on any action taken...

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• Government Abolishes the Sick Pay Reclaim Scheme

  • Posted16 July 2014

  The Government’s decision to abolish, with effect from 6 April 2014, the statutory sick pay (SSP) percentage threshold scheme, whereby employers could, in certain circumstances, reclaim SSP paid to employees...

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