Employment and HR

• Third Party Harassment Revisited

  • Posted7 February 2014

  With effect from 1 October 2013, the third party harassment provisions contained in Section 40 of the Equality Act 2010 have been repealed. The provisions made employers liable for...

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• Changes to the TUPE Regulations

  • Posted31 January 2014

  The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 came into force on 31 January 2014. They amend the provisions relating to collective redundancies in the...

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• HAVS Prosecutions Ring Warning Bell for Employers

  • Posted29 January 2014

  The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has recently launched a series of prosecutions against employers for failing to ensure that adequate measures were taken to minimise workers’ exposure to vibration...

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• ‘Unusually Robust Language’ Did Not Undermine Unfair Dismissal Ruling

  • Posted10 January 2014

  An argument by school governors that the ‘unusually robust language’ used by an Employment Tribunal (ET) in upholding a teacher’s unfair dismissal claim revealed a loss of objectivity and amounted...

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• Court Defines Limits on Employers’ Vicarious Liability

  • Posted31 December 2013

  In a decision which helps to define the limits of employers’ vicarious liability for the culpable actions of their employees, the Court of Appeal has ruled that a police Chief...

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• Nurses’ Human Rights Violated by Longest Ever Disciplinary Process

  • Posted17 December 2013

  Two nurses who were found guilty of misconduct by their professional body following the longest recorded set of disciplinary proceedings have been exonerated after the High Court found that their...

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